[Vintage Postcard: Gold Medal Art, n.d.]
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, with gratitude to all for your visits, your comments, and your discussions of all things Jane! ~ Thank you for including Jane Austen in Vermont in your daily blog surfing! See you all in 2013!
Today in Jane Austen’s life: Henry Austen marries his cousin Eliza de Feuillide on this day, December 31, 1797.
The 12 Days of Christmas:
Day 6: Jane Austen: Her Complete Novels [In One Sitting]
The 12 Days of Christmas:
Day 5: Jane Austen Bandages
Announcing the winner in the surprise Jane Austen giveaway from the December 15th post on:
Happy Birthday Jane Austen – The Ten Best Reasons to Go to a JASNA AGM!
…and the winner is… Mary Preston! – who commented on December 16:
I’ve never attended a Jane Austen Society conference, but I would love to. To meet like minded people for a start. The dressing up would be fun.
Mary, please email me with your address information and I shall post the gift [a Jane Austen journal] to you right away.
Thank you all for commenting on why you would want to attend a JASNA Annual Meeting – hope to see some of you there next year in Minneapolis! http://jasna.org/agms/minneapolis/index.html
The 12 Days of Christmas:
Day 4: Jane Austen Cards from “Greetings from England”
c2012 David Price, Allport Editions
Cards available for $2.50 ea or $14.95 for a box of 15
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The 12 Days of Christmas:
Day 3: a Jane Austen Cuff Bracelet:
I cannot think of a gift I would want more than this! [do hope my caro sposo is paying close attention!]– I had the pleasure of meeting Susannah Fullerton at the JASNA AGM in Brooklyn – she goes above and beyond as the President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA), has just published A Dance with Jane Austen [she wrote a guest post here], and she has a new book coming out in early 2013 Celebrating Pride and Prejudice (titled Happily Ever After in the UK)
An interview with Lee Child in The New York Yimes Book Review:
What do you plan to read next?
My to-be-read pile is enormous, but winking ominously at me is Jane Austen’s “Emma.” I have never read Jane Austen — in my American wife’s eyes an incredible deficiency for an Englishman, matched only by the fact that I don’t really like Mozart. I hadn’t read “Jane Eyre” either, until she made me, and I’m glad I did, so I’ll get to “Emma” eventually — but perhaps not soon.
I begin today a run through the next 12 days of the Christmas Season with some thoughts on gifts for your favorite Austen fan or gifts to add to your own “Want-List” – if you have been “nice” and not naughty all year [please do check Henry Tilney’s dispute over the meaning of the word in Vol. I, ch. 14 of Northanger Abbey], you might find some of these under your tree!
Day 1. A miniature edition of Emma, from Plum Park Press [see update on a second printing below!]
Jane Austen in Vermont 