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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey an admirer of Jane Austen
It would have excited in her an amused incredulity, no doubt, had any one predicted that two generations after her death the real recognition of her powers was to come. Time, which like desert sands...
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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for March
Monthly announcment of upcoming Jane Austen novels, sequels, or other Regency authors of note. This month includes: Selected Letter of Jane Austen (Oxford Worlds Classics), Confessions of a Jane Austen...
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Jane Austen’s Letters: What a bit of pewter will supply
Jane Austen's letters are rich repository of her life and Regency times. In this letter to her sister Cassandra, Jane is in London visiting her brother Henry Austen while her fourth novel Emma is to be...
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Austen at Large: Jane Reads Pride and Prejudice to Miss Benn – the luckiest...
Jane Austen's letters offer a rich repository of her life and Regency times. Austen at Large reporter Virginia Claire shares her thoughts on Jane Austen's reading of Pride and Prejudice to her neighbor...
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4th Edition of Jane Austen’s Letters Due Out in November
Exciting news for Janeites! Deirdre Le Faye’s incredible scholarship on Jane Austen and her family continues in this new edition of Jane Austen’s Letters. Many will be thrilled to learn that this 4th...
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Austenprose’s Jane Austen Birthday Soiree – December 16, 2011 – with tons of...
HAPPY 236th BIRTHDAY JANE AUSTEN! Welcome to our contribution to the Austen’s Birthday Soiree! We are participating in the Austen’s Birthday Soiree, hosted by Katherine Cox of November’s Autumn &...
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Vanity or vexation?
VANITY I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. The Letters of Jane Austen, 11 December 1815 Unlearned?...
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Buying Austen Books a Disagreeable Duty? Never!
Since I wrote last, my 2nd edition (Sense and Sensibility) has stared me in the face. Mary tells me that Eliza means to buy it. I wish she may. It can hardly depend upon any more Fyfield Estates. I...
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