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Goodreads Monday: At Home with Jane Austen
Title: At Home with Jane AustenAuthor: Kim WilsonPublication Date: September 30, 2014Synopsis: From her youth in a country rectory in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, England—where she wrote her first stories for her friends, Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third—to the fashionable spa town of Bath, to the seaport of Southampton, to … Continue reading Goodreads Monday: At Home with Jane Austen
Flashback Friady – Book Suggestion: Old Friends and New Fancies
This post was originally from June 8, 2008Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane AustenBy Sybil G. BrintonOld Friends and New Fancies distinguishes itself from the spate of Jane Austen sequels we've seen in the last several years in that it was written in 1913—now almost a century ago … Continue reading Flashback Friady – Book Suggestion: Old Friends and New Fancies
Regency Woman Wednesday – Marguerite Gardiner
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington(1 September 1789 – 4 June 1849)Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She became acquainted with Lord Byron in Genoa and wrote a book about him. Her childhood was made unhappy by her father's character and poverty, and her early womanhood wretched by a … Continue reading Regency Woman Wednesday – Marguerite Gardiner
Regency Man Monday – Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner(17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. Noting the common observation that milkmaids were generally immune to smallpox, Jenner postulated that the pus in the blisters that milkmaids received from cowpox (a disease similar to smallpox, … Continue reading Regency Man Monday – Edward Jenner
Friday Fun – Puncuation and Prejudice
All the punctuation in P&P from neuroecologyI read a number of interesting articles on Medium daily and this article really caught my attention. Punctuation in novels by Adam J CalhounHe mentions that he saw a series of posters that show all the punctuation in novels and he wondered what his favorite books would look like. … Continue reading Friday Fun – Puncuation and Prejudice
Wordless Wednesday #143
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It’s Monday! What are you reading? Mansfield Park Revisited
Title: Mansfield Revisited Author: Joan AikenPublication Date: October 3, 2008Synopsis: In Aiken's sequel to Jane Austen's complex and fascinating novel, after heroine Fanny Price marries Edmund Bertram, they depart for the Caribbean, and Fanny's younger sister Susan moves to Mansfield Park as Lady Bertram's new companion. Surrounded by the familiar cast of characters from Jane Austen's original, and joined by … Continue reading It’s Monday! What are you reading? Mansfield Park Revisited
First Line Friday – Lovers’ Vows
LOVERS' VOWSACT I.SCENE I. A high road, a town at adistance--A small inn on one side ofthe road--A cottage on the other.The LANDLORD of the inn leadsAGATHA by the hand out of his house.LANDLORD. No, no! no room for you any longer--It is the fair to-dayin the next village; as great a fair as any … Continue reading First Line Friday – Lovers’ Vows
Fun Friday – Mansfield Park Poll Results!
In doing research for this month's poll, I kept seeing Mansfield Park rated at the bottom of lists, or people saying how they don't care for the novel. I happen to like the novel and was wondering how everyone else feels about CNJ-JASNA's novel of 2017.I first asked if readers liked the novel: Then I … Continue reading Fun Friday – Mansfield Park Poll Results!
Jane Austen Society of North America - New Jersey Region 