I have been out-of-town, visiting the Big Apple and the Austen exhibit at the Morgan Library – this was fabulous! – I will report on it in a later post, but for now, there is much to make note of in the ever-busy world of Jane Austen, so will summarize as best I can – you will see that we all have our reading cut out for us!
JASNA has published its new edition of Persuasions On-Line [Volume 30, No. 1 Winter 2009] – and note that JASNA-Vermont’s own Kelly McDonald has a published article – see this highlighted below!
Table of Contents: from the 2009 AGM on Jane Austen’s Brothers and Sisters
Miscellany:
And remember to renew your JASNA membership if you have not already done so. JASNA is now accepting membership registrations and donations via PayPal, so this is a fine time to give a gift membership to any of your Austen-loving friends!
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News from Tim Bullamore, the editor Jane Austen’s Regency World: the January/February 2010 (No 43) edition of is published today and features the following:
- Sex and the city: Dan Cruickshank explains how London was built on the wages of sin
- Comparing Jane Austen with Iris Murdoch. Dr Gillian Dooley examines similar traits in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat
- Jane’s civil rogue. Maggie Lane, consultant editor of JARW, discusses John Murray, Jane’s publisher
- When the bubble burst: the devastation caused by the South Sea Bubble, by Joanna Brown
- Three Creole Ladies. Paul Bethel on Empress Josephon, Fanny Nisbet and Jane Leigh Perrot
- Prince of Prints. Inside Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, by Sue Wilkes
- Queen of Science, The tale of Mary Somerville, by Nelly Morrison
NEW for this issue is our Austen Quiz: test your knowledge of Jane Austen
Plus: book reviews, My Jane Austen (Sandy Welch, who adapted Emma for the BBC) and news from JAS and JASNA [note that Elaine Bander, President of JASNA-Canada, has written an article on the Jane Austen House Tour of 2009]
There is also the chance to win a Jane Austen audiobook set from Naxos (worth £199)
Coming up in March/April 2010: a music special: what was on Jane Austen’s iPod, PLUS a FREE CD with every copy, featuring music from Bath in Jane Austen’s time.
For more information or to subscribe [which you must do!], please visit: http://www.janeaustenmagazine.co.uk/
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The Chawton House Library‘s latest issue of The Female Spectator just showed up in my mailbox [Vol. 13, No. 4, Autumn 2009] with three fine articles:
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“Charlotte Lennox’s ‘Spirited and Natural’ Marketing Strategy” by Susan Carlisle, about Lennox’s novel Henrietta (1758) and her adaptation of it into her play The Sister (1769)
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“The History of the Novel as Glimpsed through Chawton’s Manuscripts,” by Emily C. Friedman
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“Making Our Literary Mothers: The Case of Delarivier Manley,” by Victoria Joule
You too can receive this newsletter by becoming a Friend of the Library – for more information, visit the website here.
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The Jane Austen Centre in Bath has just published its December newsletter, and it too is filled with Austen and holiday goodies: go to this link to sign up for this free monthly e-newsletter; appended below are links to some of the December issue contents:
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In celebration of Jane Austen’s 234th birthday, Cambridge University Press is pleased to offer a 20% discount* on their most recent Austen scholarship. Search the site for the following titles:
1. Letters of Jane Austen 2 Volume Set from the Cambridge Library Collection – Literary Studies
2. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment, by Peter Knox-Shaw
3. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen 9 volume HB set [just in case you have an extra $900. lying around…]
Enter Discount Code MW09AUSTEN to receive your discount!
*Offer expires January 1st 2010
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Masterpiece Theater: the new three-part Emma will be broadcast FINALLY in the US on January 24 – February 7. Click here for the latest information and to view the trailer. Masterpiece also offers the Austen addict a fun piece of selecting which of the PBS “Men of Austen” you would select for a mate – each has a full description of their best qualities and their “turnoffs” – take a look and choose – I will not tell the results, but you can rest assured that John Thorpe has come in last in this selection process!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/menofausten.html
[oh goodness! – who to choose, who to choose…]
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I’ll have more on the Morgan exhibit, but here is a short video of “Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Austen,” part of the 16 minute “Divine Jane” video presentation that accompanies the exhibit. The Harriet Walter [a.k.a. Fanny Dashwood] piece is also now available online.
Stay tuned ~ more to come on the Morgan exhibit…
[Posted by Deb]
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