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  • Progression of Regency Fashion in Jane Austen’s Adult Life


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    The blog, Carla-at-Home , features an interesting post on the progression of Regency fashion. The images were taken from John Peacock’s book: Costume 1066 – 1966, A Complete Guide to English Costume Design and History (copyrighted 1986). Mr. Peacock was the senior costume designer for BBC Television when the ...
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  • Curtis Sittenfeld: I know my characters are unlikable sometimes


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    Whether first ladies, prep school classmates or sisters with a spooky secret, Curtis Sittenfelds characters are strikingly realistic. Just dont assume theyre all biographical Curtis Sittenfeld is a bestselling author whose novels include Prep , The Man of My Dreams and American Wife , a fictionalised biography ...
    3 days ago

  • Emma (2009) - Worthwhile Movie #7


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    Shortly after finishing the book, I watched the movie of Jane Austen’s Emma (2009 BBC). I had seen two other movie versions but had not yet found an Emma I could like. While I can’t say that I will ever love this heroine, this film certainly made her more endearing than the others. In fact, this production ...
    4 days ago

  • Aeon: The Wisdom of Gardens


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    Aeon is a new UK-based magazine, which specialises in essays: fresh every day.  In the past months Ive read some fantastic works by Mark Rowlands ( on play ), Julian Baggini ( on Kierkegaard ) and Tim Ecott ( on swimming ). Helen Heywards recent piece on motherhood was particularly lucid and moving. I have a new ...
    4 days ago

  • Review: What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan


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    Source: Borrowed from library Rating: ★★★★★ What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved answers 20 questions relating to the novels of Jane Austen.  John Mullan, an English professor at University College London, explores such topics as the importance of age in Austen’s novels, ...
    4 days ago

  • Home of the Week: A French Manor Estate in Scottsdale


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    In our newest ‘ Home of the Week ‘, we move from a Julie Morgan designed house on Lake Tahoe to a French Manor Estate in one of Scottsdale, Arizona’s most exclusive neighborhoods. Listed for $7.7 million, this elegant and ornate sprawling estate looks like it could have been used as a location in the recent ...
    5 days ago

  • Jane Austen and writing


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    Jane Austens writing desk, Chawton, England. Click image to view detail. My late maternal grandmother was a high school librarian and I sometimes stayed with her after school until my mother - who was a teacher - picked me up....
    5 days ago

  • ToDo ToDay: Buika! The Olms!


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    On her latest album,  La Noche Mas Larga (The Longest Night) , the husky-voiced singer Buika takes on songs associated with jazz legend Billie Holiday, Argentine rocker Fito Paez, and Belgian chanson singer Jacques Brel. With the aid of longtime collaborators and some of New York’s top Latin jazz players, Buika ...
    6 days ago

  • Jane Austen, even in my dreams ...


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    If you are a fan of Miss Austen, perhaps youd like to hear about the dream I had last night. I wrote about it on my Jane Austen blog . Have a splendid day!
    6 days ago

  • Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review


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    Austens characters may engage with strategy, but game theory can only partially explain their actions There used to be polls among Jane Austen aficionados for the most implausible title of an academic book about her fiction. What about Jane Austen and the French Revolution ? Or  Sibling Love and Incest in Jane ...
    6 days ago

  • Presumption: An Entertainment: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice, by Julia Barrett – A Review


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    This is my sixth selection for The Pride and Prejudice Bicentenary Challenge 2013, our year-long event honoring Jane Austen’s second published novel. Please follow the link above to read all the details of this reading and viewing challenge. Sign up’s are open until July 1, 2013. My Review: Before Mr. Darcy’s ...
    6 days ago

  • Emma – Jane Austen


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    Emma   Emma  is a book by Jane Austen. It was first published in the year 1815. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a “heroine whom no one but myself will much like” when she began writing  Emma . It is a comedy about Emma Woodhouse, a rich young lady growing up in ...
    1 week ago

  • Book Review: The Watsons and Lady Susan


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    I have acquired the entire audiobook collection of Jane Austen books :) I decided to listen to them all in the order that they were written, so these two shorter stories came first. The Watsons by Jane Austen is a short story about a girl, Emma Watson, coming home after living with her wealthy aunt for most of ...
    1 week ago

  • Book Review: The Watsons and Lady Susan


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    I have acquired the entire audiobook collection of Jane Austen books :) I decided to listen to them all in the order that they were written, so these two shorter stories came first. The Watsons by Jane Austen is a short story about a girl, Emma Watson, coming home after living with her wealthy aunt for most of ...
    1 week ago

  • Part III ~ Summering with Jane Austen ~ in New York State!


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    In my ongoing posts on the variety of summer events featuring Jane Austen, here are two upcoming events this June, both sponsored by JASNA regions in New York State. Here are the details: please visit the websites for more information on how to register… JASNA-Rochester’s Jane Austen Weekend War of ...
    1 week ago

  • Retelling Jane Austen


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    Gilbert Gottfried Reads Jane Austen Ever heard of The Irrelevant Show? I wouldn’t have until I noticed that Gilbert Gottfried, the original voice of the Aflack duck, read Sense and Sensibility using his *ahem* unique comic’s voice. Imagine Gilbert living 200 years ago and reading by candlelight at night with that ...
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  • Comfort Reads


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    RHYS BOWEN: Yesterday we talked about going back to a much loved place and whether we were disappointed or not. Today were going to talk about revisiting a much loved book.  Do you re-read books youve enjoyed? Do you have particular favorites you revisit again? I love the feel of a real book in my hands, but on ...
    1 week ago

  • The Archie McPhee Wheel of Bandages!


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    The Archie McPhee Wheel of Bandages!
    1 week ago

  • Jane Austens England: A traveler haunts her haunts


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    After writing "Northanger Abbey," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride" in Steventon, Jane finally spiffed up the manuscripts for publication here in this plain country cottage that her wealthy brother Edward provided for her and her sister and their mother.
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  • The Hench Womans Handbook is batting 1000 while a menace from Mansfield is warming up in the writers pen


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    Its a proud day here at LRG as my very first e-book, The Hench Womans Handbook , reached an impressive goal. As of today, it has one thousand downloads and granted,THWHB is a free book so Im not rolling around in Scrooge McDuck money here yet I am thrilled to have gotten this far with it. Much thanks is due to my ...
    1 week ago

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