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Book Recommendations – Love and Friendship & Lady Susan

Source: Daily Mail via CNJ JASNA on Pinterest The picture above is from the new film adaption of Jane Austen's Lady Susan. The movie is titled Love and Friendship (if you're like me you are kind of wondering if Whilt Stillman is going to pull in some of that famous fainting from that story into … Continue reading Book Recommendations – Love and Friendship & Lady Susan →

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? – A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Yesterday, I had this conversation on Twitter with Jen Fitzgerald: @LitJrzyGrl Just finished Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own; think you would like it. Bit dated but interesting musings on women writers.— Miss JJ (@sweetiegherkin) March 1, 2015//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js@LitJrzyGrl And all that talk of women & fiction leads to many, many references to Jane Austen. … Continue reading It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? – A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf →

Morven Museum’s Schoolgirl Needlework Exhibit

This past weekend we toured the "Hail Specimen of Female Art! New Jersey Schoolgirl Needlework, 1726-1860" temporary exhibit at the Morven Museum in Princeton, NJ. The exhibit displays embroideries in silk and wool that were completed by young, relatively wealthy girls as part of their formal education during the 18th and 19th centuries. All of … Continue reading Morven Museum’s Schoolgirl Needlework Exhibit →