Hugh Thomson ~ “Reading Jane’s Letters”

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A Jane Austen Day!

Visit my Jane Austen in Vermont blog for a post on Austen’ s birthday, today, December 16, 1775. See also the latest Persuasions On-Line, Vol. 31, No 1, released today on the JASNA.org website.

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Vermont Book Festivals

Vermont is hosting two Book Festivals in the next week – please visit each Festival site for details on authors speaking and other book-related events: Burlington Book Festival The 2010 Burlington Book Festival will take place in a variety of downtown Burlington venues throughout the weekend of September 24 through 26. The Queen City’s 6th annual [...]

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Conserving Jane Austen

Here is a link to the Bodleian Library’s Centre for the Study of the Book project of conserving  Jane Austen’s Volume the First, her Juvenilia compilation that includes Henry & Eliza, The Adventures of Mr Harley, and The beautifull Cassandra. “Austen wrote in a ready-made bound blank-book and completed the transcript when she was seventeen. The [...]

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Jane Austen on the Block

Two Austen items on the auction block in early December: Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale N08602 11 Dec 09, New York Exhibition Opens 5 Dec 09 DATE & TIME:  Session 1: Fri, 11 Dec 09, 10:00 AM                                Session 2: Fri, 11 Dec 09, 2:00 PM **********************************************  LOT 75 : AUSTEN, JANE  10,000—15,000 USD  Mansfield Park. London: Printed for T. [...]

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Jane Austen at the Morgan

The Fine Books & Collections October 2009 issue has an article on Jane Austen to announce the upcoming exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum which will run from November 6, 2009 – March 14, 2010.  See the full article here and see the Morgan information here [there will be a gallery talk on November 20th at 7 [...]

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Jane Austen’s “Emma” on the Auction Block

There are TWO copies of Jane Austen’s Emma to appear at auction in the next several weeks: At Swann Galleries [NY] ~ 10/01/09: 19th & 20th Century Literature – Sale 2188, Lot 5  AUSTEN, JANE. Emma. 3 volumes. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 brown calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering, bands, and volume numbers on spines, rubbing with loss at [...]

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Summer Reading Lists

We all love booklists – over at The Bookshop Blog, Nora O’Neill has posted a summer reading list, a compilation from various high schools in Connecticut.  I post here just the books listed – see the full post for her commentary on each title. [I was especially pleased to see my two favorite books on the list [...]

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Huntington Library Exhibit on Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)—one of the greatest moralists, poets, biographers, critics, essayists, and correspondents of all time—so dominated literary and intellectual life in the last half of the 18th century that the era is frequently referred to as the “Age of Johnson.”  As a conversationalist and writer he was so insightful and adept in the use [...]

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Austen on the Block ~ Bloomsbury Auctions

[I am repeating this from my Jane Austen in Vermont blog] Bloomsbury Auctions-New York  announces the exhibition and auction of   The Paula Peyraud Collection, Samuel Johnson and  Women Writers in Georgian Society Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 • 10:00 am   Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, [...]

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