On this day in 1811, an advertisement for the novel Sense and Sensibility “By A Lady” appeared in the London newspaper The Star no. 7690. This was Jane Austen’s first published work and her entre into literary history.
Published by Thomas Egerton of the Military Library publishing house in London, it was priced at 15s and [...]
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Happy Birthday Sense and Sensibility
Posted in Austen Editions, Austen's Oeuvre, Sense & Sensibility, tagged Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility on 30 October 2009 | 7 Comments »
Collector’s Library Re-issues Jane Austen Classics
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Books, Collector's Library, Emma, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility on 2 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
Great news for Jane Austen readers and book collectors. The Collector’s Library, a UK publisher has re-issued their popular and distinctive editions of Jane Austen’s six major novels. These compact 5.9 x 4 inch volumes are beautifully designed for easy handling and include these great features:
Full-cloth hardcover bindings
Ribbon markers
Head and tail bands
Gilt edges
Classic illustrations by Hugh [...]
A New Haute Couture Pride and Prejudice Cover by Fashion Illustrator Reuben Toledo
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Book covers, Emily Bronte, Fiction, Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Penguin Couture Classics, Pride and Prejudice, Rueben Toledo, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights on 27 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
I think that Jane Austen just might approve of this new cover design that fashion illustrator Rueben Toledo has created for her novel Pride and Prejudice. Her fondness for finery is confirmed in her letters to her sister Cassandra as she chats about her shopping expeditions to linen-drapers, silk-mercer’s and milliners in London and Bath, [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for August
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Adam Campan, Amanda Grange, Arabella, Austen Book Slueth, Classic Literature, Georgette Heyer, Helen Lefroy, James Fairfax, Jane Austen, Marsha Altman, Mr. Darcy Vampyre, Old Morality, Penguine Classic Deluxe Edition, Plight of the Darcy Brothers, Pride and Prejudice, Sir Walter Scott, SourceBooks, Waverly novels on 1 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in August, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, by Amanda Grange
Amanda Grange, the best selling author of Mr. Darcy’s Diary continues the story of [...]
Jane Austen Biographer: Mary Augusta Austen-Leigh
Posted in Austen Biographer's, Austen Editions, Austen's Life, tagged Biographies, Claire Tomalin, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen, Mary Augusta Austen-Leigh, Nonfiction, Virginia Woolf on 14 January 2009 | 6 Comments »
Was Jane Austen a Moralist? No! many of her fervent admirers will exclaim – ‘Thank Heaven – that she was not!’ Her mission was to amuse, to delight, to refresh us – but neither to reprove nor to condemn us! Those who want ‘Moral Tales’ must seek them elsewhere; they are not to be found [...]
Austen Illustrator: Maximilien Vox
Posted in Austen Editions, Austen Illustrators, tagged Book Illustrators, J. M. Dent, J. M. Dent & Sons, Jane Austen, Maximilien Vox, The Works of Jane Austen on 6 January 2009 | 2 Comments »
“And by my treatment of the pictures I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws rather than paints: an art which aims at grace and rhythm rather than at intensity of expression.” Maximilien Vox on Jane Austen
Many book illustrators have attempted to interpret Jane Austen’s characters [...]
The Sunday Salon: Austen-esque Books in the Queue for January
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, Austen-esque Books, Gothic Novels, The Sunday Salon, tagged Claudia L. Johnson, David Monaghan, Fiction, Georgette Heyer, Gregg A. Hecimovich, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Jane Greensmith, Nonfiction, Robert K. Wallace, Romance novels, Sally Smith O'Rourke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 4 January 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in January, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)
Frederica, by Georgette Heyer. Accolades to Sourcebooks for taking up the banner and reissuing thirteen Georgette Heyer novels to date and [...]
Austen-esque Books in the Queue for December
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, Austen-esque Books, tagged Cecilia or the Memories of an Heiress, Colleen McCullough, Evelina, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, The Idependence of Miss Mary Bennet, The Little Book of Jane Austen on 2 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in December, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel, by Colleen McCullough. When best selling author of the Thorn Birds and The Masters of Rome Series Colleen McCullough saw [...]
Mansfield Park Chapters 41-48: Summation, Musings & Discussion; Day 14 Give-away!
Posted in Austen Editions, Austen Group Reads, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged Book discussions, Books, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, Regency on 28 August 2008 | 13 Comments »
THE NOVEL
Good sense, like hers, will always act when really called upon; and she found that she had been able to name him to her mother, and recall her remembrance of the name, as that of “William’s friend,” though she could not previously have believed herself capable of uttering a syllable at such a moment. [...]
Mansfield Park Madness: 17 Days of Great Give-aways!
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen Editions, Austen-esque Books, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged British literature, Fiction, Free Give-aways, Jane Austen, Literature, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness on 15 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Free Stuff
Austenprose is happy to announce the 17 great days of give-aways being offered during Mansfield Park Madness. To qualify for any and all of the following prizes, please leave a comment in the corresponding post(s) for the day that the prize is announced (a real comment not just a spam-ment) between August 15-30, 2008 and your name [...]
Mansfield Park Madness @ Austenprose Preview
Posted in Austen Adaptations, Austen Editions, Austen Inspired, Austen-esque Books, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged Add new tag, Austenprose, Central Park, Edmund Bertram, Edmund Betram's Diary, Fanny Price, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Revisited, Matters at Mansfield, Metropolitan on 10 August 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mansfield Park Madness at Austenprose August 15-31
Seventeen days of seventeen great give-aways
and Fanny too!
Welcome Janeites and classic literature fans. I am pleased to announce that Austenprose will be hosting a seventeen day event in celebration and re-discovery of Jane Austen’s most complex and often misunderstood novel Mansfield Park. Please join us on our daily journey of [...]
Austen Illustrator: Isabel Bishop
Posted in Austen Editions, Austen Illustrators, Pride & Prejudice, tagged Art, Book illustration, Books, Illustration, Isabel Bishop, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice on 17 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Longbourn (frontispiece) Pride and Prejudice, Dutton (1976)
Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) was an American Social Realist Painter and Printmaker, whose contribution of illustrations to E. P. Dutton & Company’s 1976 edition of Pride and Prejudice are quite remarkable. She has been described as “the best female artist America produced aside from Mary Cassatt“, and like Cassatt, Bishop’s [...]
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In this Pride and Prejudice spinoff, Caroline Bingley gets center stage. Distraught after the marriage of Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennet, Caroline's emotional breakdown is witnessed by Robert Darcy, Mr. Darcy's American cousin. Throw together during a carriage ride to Pemberley, they disagree on everything until Robert's gallant proposal saves her reputation. Can Caroline Bingley evolve past the snooty and snarky "mean girl" presented in Jane Austen's original novel and find love and happiness?
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