I direct you yet again to my Bygone Books Blog for a short post with links on Edith Wharton.
Category: Literature
Austen’s Manuscripts
Later Manuscripts [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen], edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree, Cambridge Universitry Press, January 2009, is now available. Priced at $130. but weighs in at a hefty 872 pages.
Contents include:
- Austen’s fiction: Lady Susan, The Watson’s, and Sanditon
- Jane Austen on Fiction, to include her letters to friends and family on writing, her “Plan of a Novel”, and her collection of opinions of Mansfield Park and Emma
- Austen’s poems and charades
- Appendices that include transcriptions of two of the manuscripts, “Sir Charles Grandison”, Prayers, attributed poems, and family poems.
- Extensive explanatory notes
Edgar Allan Poe ~ January 19, 1809
I again direct you to my Bygone Books Blog for a celebration of the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849. Though you may wonder what this has to do with Jane Austen, and I agree that the link is tenuous as best [though indeed, is Emma not a mystery??] But I did find this link to the Book Mine Set blog that quoted Mark Twain as saying the following about Poe (and we know what he had to say about our Dear Jane!):
Of Poe, [Mark Twain] said,”To me his prose is unreadable—like Jane Austen’s.”
This Book Mine Set blog does a weekly post “The Great Wednesday Compare” pitting two authors against each other. Austen beat out Poe 48-8! [she then went on to beat Lucy Montgomery and Kurt Vonnegut, but lost by 2 points to Dr. Seuss the following week!] Go to the blog and read the many comments…it is quite entertaining!
And there are of course those action figures…
Anne Bronte ~ January 17, 1820
I refer you to my Bygone Books Blog which celebrates today the birthday of Anne Bronte [1820-1849], author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
A Few Words on Wilkie Collins
I send you over to my Bygone Books Blog for a few short words on one of my favorite writers, Wilkie Collins ~ January 8, 1824 – September 23, 1889.
Jane Austen in Vermont 