A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy Exhibit Opens at the Morgan Library

The wait is over for those lucky Janeites who live on the east coast or will be visiting New York City shortly. The new exhibit A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy opened today at the Morgan Library and should prove to be a once in a lifetime Austen extravaganza for enthusiasts and admirers [...]

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The Jane Austen House Museum Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Author’s Arrival in Chawton

As for ourselves we’re very well;
As unaffected prose will tell. –
Cassandra’s pen will paint our state,
The many comforts that await
Our Chawton home, how much we find
Already in it, to our mind;
And how convinced, that when complete
It will all other Houses beat
That ever have been made or mended,
With rooms concise, or rooms distended.
You’ll find us very [...]

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