Jane Austen News - Issue 150
What's the Jane Austen News this week?
A Call to Date Like Jane Austen Would Have

- Take a long romantic walk together
- Go out dancing
- Eat dinner together
- Writing love letters
- Create weekly rituals
- Bond over a board game
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We thought they sounded marvellous, and we'll definitely be doing our best to remember to take a few more romantic strolls and write more love letters. Sometimes the old ones and the best ones.A Sunny Day Out in South California for Austen Fans
Jane Austen fans based in Southern California might like to know about an event due to take place this Sunday.
Members of the Historical Tea and Dance Society will be there, so there are sure to be some fantastic Regency outfits on display, count on seeing costumers and history buffs in their most resplendent Austen-elegant wear.
The event on Facebook is listed as running from 10-5, but those wishing to join the Jane Austen group photo should gather in the rose garden at 1pm. Entry fees to the Huntington will still apply.
Further details can be found at on the Facebook event page here.
Jane Austen in York
Fishergate's Local History Society's first talk of the year , looking at the historic connection between Fulford and Jane Austen, went down swimming this past Saturday.
This Week's Recommended Read Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal is a book whose release is highly anticipated by Jane Austen fans and non-fans alike. The book is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan. It has been dubbed "an essential guide to marriage, class and sisterhood in modern-day Pakistan".
Synopsis: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a family’s fortune is destroyed by scandal and rumour, they must look to their daughters to marry well. Alys Binat, however, loves life as it is: teaching English literature and encouraging her female students to aspire to more than society expects of them. She is resolute: she will not marry. However, her mother thinks differently and when the family receive an invite to a big wedding, Mrs Binat immediately coaches her daughters to snag rich, eligible bachelors. There, Alys’s eldest sister, Jena, catches the eye of Fahad ‘Bungles’ Bingla, a successful entrepreneur, but Alys is irked when she overhears Bungles’ friend Valentine Darsee’s snobbish assessment of her. As the festivities unfold, the Binats hold their breath, waiting to see if Bungles will propose. And Alys realises that Darsee’s apparent rudeness and contempt may conceal a different man from the one she first judged him to be.


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