I just loved this image by Marc Johns, which you can purchase at this site. Image @Marc Johns Find other prints of objects reading boo...

This Etsy shop, spoonfullofchocolate, will make custom book bags. You can order this Pride and Prejudice bag, for instance. This is h...

Kelly at Stacked makes a confession: She has yet to finish a Jane Austen novel. Unbelievable as this may seem, this librarian has only compl...

Wolfgang Mozart, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs, Tiger Woods, Jane Austen, Isaac Newton .   Are geniuses born not made? Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ...

Cool image from *Nachan on Deviant art.

Inquiring Reader, Frequent contributor Raquel Sallaberry sent a YouTube video of Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait. Sadly, the link was taken...

Gentle Readers, This month I have joined the Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Celebration on Maria Grazia's My Jane Austen Book Club b...

When I was in England, I loved visiting its forests with its bluebell carpets and ancient stands of trees. This article, Trees Scattered Ac...

Entrance to the ice house. Image @Tony Grant The July heat this year is stifling. It is all people (and animals) can do to keep cool. Ton...

Gigi and Ian cut the cake Anisha Lakhani described Gigi Stone's Jane Austen Wedding in Huffington Post yesterday. A Jane Austen we...

From Annual Jane Austen Night* Geek Mom offered an interesting article on Wired  on how to get teenage boys to read the classics. Why, ...

I've recommended to readers who have a difficult time with Jane Austen's prose to listen to her novels in podcasts, tapes, or CDs. T...

"Politely drew back and stopped to give them way." Persuasion illustration. Brock illustrates the moment Anne Elliot meets Willi...

An extremely rare manuscript handwritten by Jane Austen will go on sale at Sotheby's, London on July 14th of this year. The novel is un...

This post was published by Mags at Austenblog , who also graciously allowed me to publish it on this blog. We are pleased to announce that...

Gentle readers, I broke my foot and thus the blog will be quieter than it has been for a while. Thank you for your patience! Meanwhile, to k...

In a letter written to Cassandra on Saturday 5th March 1814 from Henrietta Street, amongst gossip about the theatre, mending a petticoat, [h...

For me, the past few years have offered a cornucopia of Jane Austen film and television adaptations. I began blogging when the Jane Austen B...

This Friday we follow Andrew Lang, whose lovely letter to Jane Austen After Her Death is thought-provoking, though at first not easy to gr...

19th century hornbook and speller Statements by Kathryn Sutherland, professor of St. Anne's College (Oxford) and Jane Austen's Fi...