Jane Austen News
What's the Jane Austen News this week? Anger at Austen £10 Note Quote We're delighted that the new £10 note is going to pay homage to Jane Austen. However, the choice of quote which t...
Read moreAusten: Keeping it real for 200 years
Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the author of the popular Jane Austen Addict novels. On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, wha...
Read moreWhat's the Jane Austen News this week? Austen's Letter Makes A Fortune! We mentioned in last week's Jane Austen News that a letter written by Jane to her niece Anna Lefroy in 1812 was ...
Read moreBehind the Scenes of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra's Persuasion Musical
Barbara Landis, artistic director of Chamber Opera Tours, found Jane Austen’s language so perfect that it begged to be adapted to theatrical lyrics. She felt that the text would be most appropr...
Read moreWhat's the Jane Austen News this week? Austen Holy Grail Worth Half A Million "“Although there are attractive editions of her novels published in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, ...
Read moreWhat's the Jane Austen News this week? The Mother of the Modern Novel Professor Kathryn Sutherland is keen to see Jane Austen praised, not as the queen of romance novels, but rather "as a pio...
Read moreFinding Happiness, Austen Style: Lift Yourself Up with Persuasion
Welcome to the second of a multi-part series of posts on how to lift yourself out of the blues, Austen style. Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is al...
Read moreWhat's the Jane Austen News this week? Words for A Wedding To Be Auctioned After seeing an announcement in a newspaper announcing the marriage of of Mr Gell of Eastbourne to Miss Gill, Jane A...
Read moreWhat's the Jane Austen News this week? You Could Live In Longbourn If you happen to have a spare £9 million lying around then Longbourn, home of the Bennet family, could be yours! Lu...
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