Presented is an elegant 19th century pink crape ball dress featured in an 1831 issue of The Royal Lady’s Magazine. This stylish and gracefull gown is lavishly embroidered with silver. The bodice is decorated with a leaf and flower design in silver with a narrow quilling of blonde lace across the top and on the … Continue reading Embroidered Ball Dress →

How breathtakingly gorgeous are these embroidered book covers by Jillian Tamaki? She made them for Penguin Books, and rumor has it that they'll be available this fall. SO beautiful. (I'm sure Jane Austen would have wholeheartedly approved. I love Emma's little freckles!)P.S. More + amazing + book covers.(By Jillian Tamaki, via Black Eiffel)

Edie Burchill, protagonist of this spine-tingling novel, has always considered her mother, Meredith, to be rather staid--until the evening a letter, written to Meredith in 1941 and lost for a half-century by the Royal Mail, arrives at the Burchills’ London home. Meredith’s emotional reaction shocks her daughter, but not nearly as much as the revelations … Continue reading The Distant Hours by Kate Morton →

Dancing with Mr. Darcy presents the winning entry-and nineteen runners-up-in Chawton House Library’s 2009 Jane Austen Short Story Competition. The collection does serve as a kind of literary love letter to Austen, but the stories are anything but bland, doting facsimiles of her style and works. The winner (“Jane Austen over the Styx”), for example, … Continue reading Dancing with Mr. Darcy Edited by Sarah Waters →

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.” --from Jane Austen’s Persuasion Presumably, one could replace “twenty-nine” in the quotation above with “thirty-nine” or, ahem, substantially higher numbers, right? We think so. And we love the Jane Austen Birthday Bookfor keeping track of loved ones’ birthdays the … Continue reading Jane Austen Birthday Book →

Pride and Prejudice T-shirt available from Bas Bleu Celebrate your stylish fashion sense and sophisticated literary sensibility with our pretty Pride and Prejudice T-Shirt! Featuring the cover art from an early edition of Jane Austen’s beloved classic, the comfy 100% cotton gray V-neck tee, with a form-fitting, flatteringly feminine cut, looks lovely on modern-day Miss … Continue reading Pride and Prejudice T-shirt →

Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York presents: Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England April 8 - June 11 Showcasing 72 prints and watercolors by the well known satirist of the Georgian age, this free exhibit is being supplemented by several related programs at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. These programs are on … Continue reading Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England →

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It's such a charming book. I would love to live in that old rundown castle with its mismatched furniture. (I think I'm longing again to have a house and garden.)Smith wrote the book in the US in 1948. But these days it seems to be enjoying a Renaissance, … Continue reading Capture the castle →

The Museum at FIT presents His & Hers, an exhibition that examines the relationship between gender and fashion. Side-by-side comparisons of men’s and women’s clothing will highlight their differences – and similarities. The exhibit ranges from side-by-side displays of men’s and women’s outfits from the 1700s and 1800s — including 19th-century wedding attire — to … Continue reading His and Hers-Fashion Side by Side →

One Kings Lane has announced their first Movie Set Sale. To kick-off these unique sales, they are partnering with Focus Features Studios to offer products from the set of the highly anticipated timepiece film Jane Eyre. This Movie Set Sale will offer exclusive access to one-of-a-kind furniture, décor and apparel from the sets of Jane … Continue reading Jane Eyre Movie Props for sale →