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Contest: Why Do YOU Read Jane Austen?
Why do YOU read Jane Austen?
Send an e-mail to rhpg@randomhouse.com and explain (in 500-1000 words) the significance Jane Austen has had on the literary world and in your own life, and you will be entered for the chance to win a signed copy of A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, along with The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, volume 1 and The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, volume 2. Read the official rules here.
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Why We Read Jane Austen
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
Why are we here? No, I mean, why are we here, on this website devoted to Jane Austen?
There are so many other things we might be doing. I’m sure you’ve put off some essential “busy nothings” to be here—work, in short. Or you could be taking a long, exhilarating walk through the countryside, dancing, or [...]
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict – Book Trailer
about 1 year ago - No comments
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Monetizing Emma
about 1 year ago - No comments
I’m a playwright who has an upcoming production in New York that might interest you.
The play, Monetizing Emma, is about the securitization of teenagers. It envisions a future where the country’s most accomplished adolescents can sell rights to their future earnings to investors in exchange for money now.
Emma, the 15-year old heroine, is one of [...]
Hello fellow Jane-ites! (A little bit of an introduction)
about 1 year ago - No comments
I should probably just say this straight away, so that no one gets angry and starts throwing teacups and doilies at me – I am not a Jane Austen expert. I couldn’t tell you what kind of silverware she had, or what her undies looked like. I can’t quote large chunks of her books from [...]
Vote for Jane Austen and we’re on twitter!
about 1 year ago - No comments
This was on our twitter follower @austen_addict ’s site.
And yes, austen.com is on twitter now and you are free to follow austencom now.
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The Austen Blog needs writers and authors
about 1 year ago - No comments
We encourage you to register and become an author on this site if you have something to contribute about the life and works of Jane Austen or if you are one of the participants in the Derbyshire Writers Guild on this site. The site is growing exponentially and we now are averaging over 80,000 unique [...]
early Jane Austen book set
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Published in London by Richard Bentley in the years 1836-1837 this is a lovely early English edition of the Novels of Jane Austen
The Set Comprises
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY – 1837
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – 1836
EMMA – 1836
MANSFIELD PARK – 1837
NORTHANGER ABBEY – 1837
PERSUASION – 1837
The link on ebay has many gorgeous hand colored drawings from this [...]
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