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1. Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is 200 Years Old: 10 Facts About the Novel 2. Jane Austen's Home and Writing Life 3. Jane Austen: The Legacy of a Literary Genius 4. Jane Austen's Charms and Challenges: A Closer Look at Her Classic Novels 5. The Art of Jane Austen: A Look at Her Literary Contributions 6. Jane Austen's Timeless Stories and Characters 7. Jane Austen: How Her Novels Still Capture Our Hearts 8. Jane Austen's Influence on Modern Literature 9. Jane Austen: A Closer Look at Her Life and Work 10. Jane Austen and the Power of Social Critique
Today I'm pleased to share the details of Humility and Tolerance for the blog tour organised by Rachel's Random Resources A sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Seven years after Elizabeth Bennett married Fitzwilliam Darcy, they are still deeply in love, with two small children. But paradise is showing cracks now that Darcy’s aged…
A Puffin hardcover and a Modern Library paperback of Pride and Prejudice Everyone loves Jane Austen. Sebastian Faulks writes in his brilliant, entertaining introduction to the Folio Society edition of Pride and Prejudice: “It is a novel of almost boundless wit and charm that has withstood film and television adaptations and attempts to define it…
It’s 8 a.m. I won’t lie: I seldom get up this early. If I’m up at 8:00, I’m reading science fiction or Jane Austen (there are similarities) while the coffee brews. Only today it won’t brew: the machine keeps flashing the CLEAN sign, and I can’t face the odor of the vinegar rinse. I'll do…
Illustration of Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice, by c. E. Brock (1895) As a preamble to some observations on rereading Jane Austen, I am writing (yet again) about some of the many Austen editions and sets. I am not a collector - but I have at least two different copies of each…
There were years when I could not bear Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. I particularly could not bear Fanny Price. She was so timid, so prim, so wan, and had nothing of wit about her. This time around I’ve had a revelation. Mansfield Park is not a comedy. And perhaps that is why this novel does…
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to Reading Jane Austen 2025, call attention to Spanish Portuguese Lit Month and highlight fascinating features from across the Internet.
I am not the kind of woman who travels to England to stalk Jane Austen's past. Methinks the lady doth protest too much. "You wrong me,"I say dramatically. My tolerance of tours is limited these days. If I finally get to Bath, the scene of Persuasion and at least one of Austen's homes, I will…
What can one say about Jane Austen? There are so many Jane fans, groupies, common readers, blogger, vloggers, and academics that anything you say will be redundant. But I am popping in to laud Mansfield Park, which is my new favorite novel by Austen. I have been acquainted with Jane Austen for years. When I…
Reading during the Agoraphobia Experiment It is Day 4 of the Agoraphobia Experiment. Amazingly, it is going well. It is very hot, so it is not difficult to sit indoors with the fan blasting on me. I am reading – not Jane Austen, because I cannot read Jane incessantly – but a beautifully-written fantasy novel,…