Here you will find a collection of old-fashioned soup recipes to warm you up on a chilly Fall afternoon. These hearty dishes are from a turn-of-the-century cookbook and are full of butter, cream, and eggs … not exactly healthy, but are delicious.
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French Antique Daybed
Fashionable French furniture in the early 1800s featured elegant sofa beds ornately decorated with gilt ornaments and lush draperies. Featured is an 1809 sofa bed or daybed lavished with blue silk and velvet draperies.Read full story.
The Remarkable Journey of the Stansted Park Suite
The historic Stansted Park suite of giltwood seat furniture was almost certainly commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Halifax for his stately mansion at Stansted Park in Sussex in the 1760s. It remained there until a fire consumed the building in 1900. It was sold at Christie’s in 1911 when it entered a glamorous new … Continue reading The Remarkable Journey of the Stansted Park Suite
Living in Sense and Sensibility
This post courtesy of Design*Sponge:Sense and Sensibility is such a sparkling Austen adaptation that I kept forgetting to pause it to take movie stills for this post. The Dashwood sisters steal your heart right from the get-go, thanks in no small part to Emma Thompson’s fluid screenplay and director Ang Lee’s warmth and honesty. Sensible … Continue reading Living in Sense and Sensibility
Celebrate Dickens Style!
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair kicks off the Friday after Thanksgiving, November 26, for four weekends through Sunday, December 19, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. This “fantastically fun” annual tradition is perhaps the most elaborate and quintessentially “old-fashioned” Christmas event anywhere… and it happens ONLY in the San Francisco Bay Area! Attendance surpassed … Continue reading Celebrate Dickens Style!
Jane Austen treasures
An extremely rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, given by the author to her admired fellow novelist Maria Edgeworth, is to be offered in a Sotheby’s London sale in December. Moreover, the family’s Wedgwood dinner set, which Jane Austen helped to choose, and would herself have used on countless occasions, will also be auctioned. … Continue reading Jane Austen treasures
Hold the date! Dec 18 at Connie"s!
We just wanted to remind everyone of our upcoming meeting on December 18 at 2pm at Connie's house in Freehold. We will be discussing Jane Austen's Juvenilia, specificially "Catharine, or the Bower," "Love and Freindship," and "The History of England." Additionally, we we will be having a "Book Pollyanna" or book present exchange---purchase a book … Continue reading Hold the date! Dec 18 at Connie"s!
Brian Southam
Brian Southam, Chairman of the British Jane Austen Society died on October 5, 2010. Elsa Solender, Past JASNA President, Past NY Metro coordinator, has written the following:____________________________________________Brian Southam (1931-2010)Brian Southam, chairman of the British Jane Austen Society (JAS) from 1990 to 2005, died quietly in France on October 5. He had suffered earlier heart attacks.A … Continue reading Brian Southam
Janeite Maureen’s Pics of AGM
Here is a link to Janeite Maureen's gallery of AGM pictures. Please enjoy!
Breaking news: Jane Austen was human!
Fresh off the presses at Versailles and More:It has made the rounds of the major media worlwide (see the BBC, for instance.) Even Le Monde mentions it, and yet Jane Austen is not a household name in France. In 21st century parlance, the story has become “viral.”So yes, Professor Kathryn Sutherland, of Oxford University, reveals … Continue reading Breaking news: Jane Austen was human!
Jane Austen Society of North America - New Jersey Region 