Austen Eats With Us

Eating with Austen's Characters. Why Austen's meals are so easy to visualize

Jane Bennet: The Human Equivalent of a Really Good Vanilla Scoop of Ice Cream

Jane Bennet. TNTBR? (Too nice to be real?)

Jane Austen, Charlotte Lucas, and the Power of “Yet”

Charlotte Lucas remains one of the most controversial characters in Pride & Prejudice, with some seeing her choice of the obsequious Collins as pragmatic, others as calculating, and still others as tragic.

New Years Resolutions: Reading Goals

Have you set your reading goal for 2022

Twelve Days of Janeite Christmas

Giving the gift of Jane this holiday season.

Is Pride & Prejudice a Christmas book?

I'm told that around this time, normal Internet (as opposed to Jane Austen-obsessed Internet) likes to debate if Die Hard (1988) is a Christmas film. I suppose the Austen equivalent surrounds Pride & Prejudice. P&P, after all, does have a winter ball where much happens (drama, intrigue, terrible singing).

Podcasting with Jane – Page Turner

Here's a short clip from KJZZ out of Arizona. Their segment Page Turner asks Arizona bookstores for their picks. Page Turner: 'The Heiress: The Revelations Of Anne De Bourgh' Page Turner from KJZZ

Happy Birthday Pride & Prejudice

Working title: First Impressions Set in: Hertfordshire and Derbyshire, c. 1812 Publisher: T. Egerton, Whitehall Publication date: 28 January 1813 Media type Print: (hardback, 3 volumes) Looking at our past Meet the Janeites post, a lot of us discovered Austen's works because we read her as a school assignment, and … Continue reading Happy Birthday Pride & Prejudice →

Monday Book Quote

Trying something new here on the blog, using a random word generator I will get a word and find it in one of Jane's novels. I will share that quote here. reflectShe had some satisfaction in finding that he was really going out of Bath the next morning, going early, and that he would be … Continue reading Monday Book Quote →

Wordy Wednesday #22

Source: wintersoldierfell on Tumblrvia CNJ JASNA on Pinterest [text] hot take pride and prejudice isn’t a story about two people who hate each other getting married despite their hate. pride and prejudice is a story about a rich, privileged guy getting called on his privilege and toxic masculinity by the woman he admires and then actually listening … Continue reading Wordy Wednesday #22 →