Thoughts from Janeites

Charlton Heston - An Unlikely Fan
Charlton Heston - a Janeite? It's more likely than you think.
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Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness & True Love
Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness & True Love Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the author of the popular Jane Austen Addict novels. Can...
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Austen Superpowers: Finding Yours With Anne Elliot
Anne Elliot: A quiet force to be reckoned with. Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the author of the popular Jane Austen Addict novels. Lizzy B...
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Austen Fanfiction Authors share their love of our Jane
We're delighted to be able to bring you this fantastic blog post by Claudine Pepe; blogger and devoted Austen fan, in which she asks fellow Austenesque authors why Jane Austen inspires them so much...
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From English Grad to Real-Life Elizabeth Bennet
Zoe tells us about how she came to be our Lizzy Bennet
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Happiness, Austen Style: Read It Out, Act It Out, Dance It Out
Welcome to the first of a multi-part series of posts on how to lift yourself out of the blues, Austen style.
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by Margaret Mills What reading material do you turn to if you are unwell? The novelist Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell wrote a letter early in 1865 to John Ruskin, about one of her own books, in which she ...
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Writing In Tough Times: Jane Austen in Bath and Southampton
Rebecca Smith, author of The Jane Austen Writers' Club, reflects on Jane's writing practice in this exclusive pieced for the Jane Austen Centre blog.
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Finding Happiness, Austen Style: Lift Yourself Up with Persuasion
Here's full instructions on how to turn Persuasion's life lessons into real life happiness
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What Jane Austen Means to Me by Becca Hemmings
Giftshop Manager Becca Hemmings describes how her time at the Jane Austen Centre inspired her life's work.
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How I Fell in Love With Georgette Heyer
Vic Sanborn of Jane Austen's World describes her love affair with Georgette Heyer...an extension of her love of Austen
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