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Happy New Year, All
Posted in jane austen, tagged Happy New Year on December 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Jane Austen at The Morgan Library
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's enduring popularity, Jane Austen's letters, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Lady Susan, Regency style, The Watsons, tagged A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy, Morgan Library, Morgan Library and Museum on December 31, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The exhibit, A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy, will be shown through March 14, 2010 at the Morgan Library in New York City. This week I had the distinct pleasure of seeing this unique presentation of Jane’s letters, the drafts of two of her novels (The Watsons and Lady Susan), several books, and [...]
Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute
Posted in Book review, Fashions, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, tagged Kyotot Costume Institute on December 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Laurel Ann, my blogging partner at Jane Austen Today, gave me a copy of Fashion: The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute a thick, breathtaking book with color photographs of the institute’s extensive western fashion collection. The Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI), founded in 1978, is the only institution in Japan to study Western fashion. Its [...]
Christmas in the Olden Time
Posted in Christmas, History, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, tagged Christmas in the Olden Time, Sir Walter Scott on December 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Happy Christmas from Jane Austen’s World Heap on more wood! — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new born year The fittest time for festal cheer. And well our Christian sires of old. Loved when the year its course [...]
My Dear Charlotte by Hazel Holt: A Review
Posted in Austenesque novels, Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen Novels, Jane Austen's World, Popular culture, Regency Life, Regency World, tagged Coffeetown Press, Hazel Holt, My Dear Charlotte on December 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
My Dear Charlotte is a recent novel written in epistolary form by British mystery writer Hazel Holt, who uses Jane Austen’s letters to her sister Cassandra for her inspiration. The main character of the book and the writer of the letters is Elinor Cowper (pronounced Cooper), who lives in Lyme Regis with her parents. She [...]
Persuasion: An English Project by Eric Cochrane
Posted in jane austen, Persuasion, Popular culture, tagged Eric Cochrane, Persuasion, YouTube Video of Persuasion on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, I’ll be the first to admit that this short YouTube video of Persuasion is a bit juvenile, and the language and concept somewhat puerile. But the video IS funny in a weird sort of way. It was the result of an English project based on Jane Austen’s classic. If you want more comics, check [...]
Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World, tagged Jane Austen Birthday on December 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Let’s celebrate by making ratafia cakes Take 8 fl oz: apricot kernels, if they cannot be had bitter Almonds will do as well, blanch them & beat them very fine with a little Orange flower water, mix them with the whites of three eggs well beaten & sifted, work all together and it will be [...]
Books to Keep You Company During the Holidays: Regency Cheshire by Sue Wilkes
Posted in Book review, jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, tagged Regency Cheshire, Sue Wilkes on December 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
T’is the season to purchase books for a Christmas gift or to curl up with a novel in front of a fire as the cold weather settles in. The first book I suggested for your consideration was The Harlot’s Progress: Yorkshire Molly, by Peter Mottley, the first in a trilogy and a fictional actualization of Hogarth’s [...]
Black Butter: A Christmas Recipe Popular in Jane Austen’s Day
Posted in Christmas, Holiday, jane austen, Jane Austen's letters, Jane Austen's life, Jane Austen's World, Regency food, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Regency World, tagged apple butter, black butter, Regency food on December 12, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Inquiring readers: Reader Cora Harrison recently placed this comment on my blog: “In one letter, Jane [Austen] spoke of serving ‘black butter’ with wigeon and that she thought the butter was bad … Poor Jane, I thought. However, in reading a book called The Feast of Christmas I discovered that black butter was not butter [...]
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- Five Regency tea cups: The book is not perfect (few books are), but it was well worth its purchase and possesses many outstanding qualities that makes it stand head and shoulders above its counterparts.
- Four Regency tea cups: This book offered many hours of pleasant reading, and I found I could not put it down.
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