Jane-a-Day: The 5 Year Journal, by Potter Style

Let the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen guide you throughout the next five years. Each journal page features a memorable quote from the iconic author’s oeuvre that can be revisited each year. Created to help you make a time capsule of your thoughts, simply turn to today’s date and take a few moments to comment on the quote. When you finish the year, move on to the next section. As the years go by, you’ll notice how your commentary evolves.Of course the best thing, besides the opulent binding, gold leaf on the edges and the prayer book size (how apt), is the selection of quotes. The unnamed editor who selected them from Jane Austen’s novels and letters did a superb job. Even this die-hard Janeite was pleased to discover a few that have not been featured in every Jane Austen quote book since time began. Here are a few of my favorites:
- “She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.” – Pride and Prejudice
- “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” – Pride and Prejudice
- “Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.” – Sanditon
- “Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.” – Northanger Abbey
- “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” – Personal Correspondence
- “His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.” – Persuasion
- “There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” – Emma
- “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” – Mansfield Park
A life-long acolyte of Jane Austen, Laurel Ann Nattress is the editor of the short story anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It, and Austenprose.com, a blog devoted to the oeuvre of her favorite author and the many books and movies that she has inspired. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, a regular contributor to the Jane Austen Centre online magazine. An expatriate of southern California, Laurel Ann lives in a country cottage near Snohomish, Washington where it rains a lot. Visit Laurel Ann at her blog Austenprose – A Jane Austen Blog, on Twitter as @Austenprose, and on Facebook as Laurel Ann Nattress.
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