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Winner announced in Jane Austen Surprise Giveaway!

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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!

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…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

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All I Want for Christmas ~ Anything Jane Austen Please! ~ Day 4: Tony Heaton’s Greetings from England Cards

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The 12 Days of Christmas:

Day 4:  Jane Austen Cards from “Greetings from England”

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Wishing You All a Very Merry Christmas!!

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c2012 David Price, Allport Editions

Cards available for $2.50 ea or $14.95 for a box of 15

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

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All I Want for Christmas? ~ Anything Jane Austen Please! Day 3: A Jane Austen Bracelet

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The 12 Days of Christmas:

Day 3:  a Jane Austen Cuff Bracelet:

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All I Want for Christmas? ~ Anything Jane Austen Please! Day 2: Take a Literary Tour with Susannah Fullerton, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia

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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)

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All I Want for Christmas? ~ Anything Jane Austen Please! ~ Day 1: A Miniature edition of Emma

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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!]

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Hot off the Press! ~ Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, No. 61

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The January/February issue (No. 61) of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, marking the bicentenary of Pride & Prejudice, has just been published and is being mailed to subscribers over the holiday period.

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Jane Austen at the Seaside ~Tenby, Wales ~ Guest post by Tony Grant

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Inquiring Readers: I welcome today Tony Grant with a guest post on Tenby, Wales, a place that in all probability Jane Austen had visited. Tony, who writes often for Vic’s Jane Austen’s World blog , as well as his own blog London Calling, and I had been cyber-discussing Jane Austen’s knowledge of the seaside – I sent him the link to the Brian Southam essay  “Jane Austen Beside the Seaside” (see below) – he was immediately prompted to write more about Tenby, a place he is very familiar with because it is his wife’s birthplace.  Just reading this piece and seeing Tony’s pictures makes me want to go back to Wales and continue to explore more of this incomparable coastline! … The question today however is, did Jane Austen actually visit Tenby?  If she did it seems to have taken place in those no-letters gap years of 1801-04, so we cannot know for sure…. Read here what Tony has to say about it all…

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Happy Birthday Jane Austen! ~ The Ten Best Reasons to Go to a JASNA AGM ~ It’s All About You Jane!

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Comment below for the chance to win a surprise Jane Austen-related giveaway!

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The Ten Best Reasons to Go to a JASNA AGM, Or, Why I would celebrate Jane Austen’s Birthday
by Spiriting Her Around Such an Event

Well, I had the best of intentions to do a full write-up of all the major events at the latest JASNA AGM in Brooklyn – a special location for me personally as I am a New Yorker born and bred – but as I have mentioned elsewhere life gets in the way of our best-laid plans and as the AGM now seems light-years away, I propose to just offer a grand summary in the context of why one should go to this annual Jane Austen conference; and why do so many plan on being there year after year? Friends and family just shake their heads with the typical “she only wrote 6 books, whatever can you talk about for 4 days??” and I nod knowingly that a lifetime of conferences would not satisfy… It takes me a long while to re-enter the 21st century – how delightful it is to enjoy the late 18th and early 19th without all the attendant inconveniences!  I shall make a best effort to give the salient points of this year’s conference, memory perhaps failing me, with a dependence upon sketchy notes, not enough pictures taken (and those that were, not very good…)

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Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment by Elsa Solender ~ Now in Real Book Format!

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Elsa Solender’s book Jane Austen in Love: An Entertainment was released last year as a kindle ebook only – it is now available as a real hold-in-the-hand, turn-the-pages book! – Hurray! – you can find it here at Amazon.com:

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You can read my interview with Elsa here:

https://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/an-interview-and-book-giveaway-jane-austen-in-love-an-entertainment-by-elsa-solender/

Diana Birchall reviewed the book for this blog here:

https://janeausteninvermont.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/jane-austen-in-love-by-elsa-solender-a-review-by-diana-birchall-a-light-and-lovely-literary-biography/

My review of the book will appear in this winter’s JASNA News [and why it is not here on the blog] – if you are a collector of Jane Austen materials, you should add this book to your collection without delay – the kindle edition has been great to read, but there is nothing like the real thing on your bookshelves when it comes to Jane Austen! – and a perfect Holiday gift to your favorite Austen fan…

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