Obituaries in the Time of Jane Austen – Program Review

Posted by JASNA New Jersey on Sunday, March 29, 2015We had a wonderful program this weekend presented by Tim Bullamore. Tim talked about the history of obituaries, the changes over the years, and more specifically the death notices of the Regency era. There are 11 known obituaries for Jane. They all read about the same … Continue reading Obituaries in the Time of Jane Austen – Program Review →

Wordless Wednesday #73

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Jane Austen’s Will

I follow a number of social media websites and news feeds to find stories, pictures and other things to share with you guys. This showed up in my email earlier this week and I found it quite interesting as I had never seen it before. I figured if it was new to me, it might … Continue reading Jane Austen’s Will →

Jane Austen News!

From the Huffington Post article BoE Chooses Jane Austen to Grace 10 Pound Note:LONDON — Jane Austen will become the new face on England's 10-pound notes – in an attempt to add a little pride and fight the prejudice against women on the country's currency.The Bank of England chose the chronicler of 18th century English … Continue reading Jane Austen News! →

The Many Words of Jane Austen

Last week I posted an article to our Facebook page called The Queen of Modern Slang which briefly discussed words and phrases coined by Jane Austen that we still use today. After I posted that article I saw another brief article, In Jane's Words, and a mention in an Editorial: There's a Word for That … Continue reading The Many Words of Jane Austen →

Jane Austen LIterary Sighting! – Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/avg_rating_widget/12737118 It was a May book club pick for my book club. It was a random pick off the shelf and turned out to be a really cute book and worth reading. Description from Goodreads: For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an … Continue reading Jane Austen LIterary Sighting! – Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon →

It is a truth universally acknowledged…

that Pride and Prejudice is a much beloved story 200 years after it's publication.Publication history from WikipediaTitle page of a 1907 edition illustrated by C. E. BrockAusten began writing the novel after staying at Goodnestone Park in Kent with her brother Edward and his wife in 1796.[16] The novel was originally titled First Impressions by … Continue reading It is a truth universally acknowledged… →

Jane Austen Birthday Celebration and Book Pollyanna

As always we had a lovely tea and food spread. Our gracious host Deborah made these delicious scones. After a business meeting we got down to our discussion of Lesley Castle. With the busy holiday season in full swing not everyone got a chance to finish reading the work, but we were still able to … Continue reading Jane Austen Birthday Celebration and Book Pollyanna →

Austen, Dickens, & Rushdie

I have written and spoken elsewhere about my debt to the oral narrative traditions of India, and also to those great Indian novelists Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - Austen for her portraits of brilliant women caged by the social convention of their time, women whose Indian counterparts I knew well; Dickens for his great, … Continue reading Austen, Dickens, & Rushdie →

NYPL Digital Gallery – Jane Austen Cigarette card

Image Title: Jane Austen.Specific Material Type: Photomechanical printsStandard Reference: Cartophilic reference books, c18-109Source: [Cigarette cards.] / 50 celebrities of British history.Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / George Arents CollectionCatalog Call Number: Arents Cigarette CardsDigital ID: 1204542Record ID: 480276Digital Item Published: 7-26-2004; updated 6-21-2011