Jane AustenCompanion

Sharing the general splendor of the great literary works and legacy of Jane Austen.

[Christina Boyd @xtnaboyd]

Check out what guest reviewer Sophia Rose has to say about Christina Hwang Dudley’s new release PRIDE AND PRESTON LIN, her modern-day AsianAmerican riff on PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Published by ThirdStateBooks. #JaneAusten @CNDudley

https://t.co/bkHObH3ECU

[Jane AustenCompanion @JaneAustenWrite]

“This important rediscovery underlines music’s significance to Austen’s life and work, offering a new window on her artistic world,” says Jeanice Brooks, Professor of Music at the University of Southampton & lead on the Austen Family Music Books project.”
https://t.co/g6riDdFXnV

[Sarah Rose Kearns @Persuasion_JA]

Still figuring out your plans for Jane Austen's birthday? Please join us for a free online event through the @nypl at 2:00 PM Eastern on Friday, December 16. What is it about Jane, anyway? Registration here: https://t.co/BtHarOzWmN

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Review: Jane Austen-inspired books keep coming. Some work better than others. https://t.co/RGiNRJLyrl

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

We mourn the death of Hilary Mantel (1952–2022), a frequent contributor to the Review on subjects ranging from Jane Austen to colonial India to Annie Proulx, and whose novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies we are proud to have excerpted prior to their publication.

[Jane Austen’s House @JaneAustenHouse]

#OTD in 1817, #JaneAusten died at the age of 41. The world lost a literary giant and Jane was never to know the extent of her influence.

Today, we’ll be remembering Jane with a celebration of words and music before delivering flowers from her garden to her grave @WinCathedral.

[Jane AustenCompanion @JaneAustenWrite]

Why we love #JaneAusten “The Regency has become, according to @triaspirational Jenny Davidson, professor of English…at Columbia University and author of Reading Jane Austen, ‘a blank space where you can wrestle with whatever you want’” @guardian
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[British Vogue @BritishVogue]

Does the world really need another Jane Austen adaptation? When it stars Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding and Cosmo Jarvis, absolutely. https://t.co/s6ZUjst0mY

[NBC Out @NBCOUT]

Fire Island serves as the colorful backdrop for a thorough examination of race, class and sexuality in a modern-day — and unapologetically queer — take on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” https://t.co/lEfrCgdkJ4

[Jane AustenCompanion @JaneAustenWrite]

@lithub Audiobook Break is serializing #PrideandPrejudice —listen to the first three chapters now, read by Alison Larkin: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune…” https://t.co/1KE4azCVAt

[The Jane Austen Review @janeatplu]

#AustenPod “It was a more racially diverse society than people realized and that there were Black people there and then in the places where [#JaneAusten] went and lived”. Hear more from Dr. Gretchen Gerzina on Black British history on #TheAustenConnection
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[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.” —Mary McCarthy https://t.co/JoucHmo4dW

[Jane Austen’s House @JaneAustenHouse]

#OTD in 1817, #JaneAusten was laid to rest in @WinCathedral. Jane’s beloved sister Cassandra wrote: “…her dear remains are to be deposited in the Cathedral - it is a satisfaction to me to think that they are to lie in a Building she admired so much...”

[Jane AustenCompanion @JaneAustenWrite]

Did Jane Austen stroll over hidden Roman tombs? “Sydney Gardens, once an 18th century Georgian ‘pleasure garden,’ frequented by famed novelist Jane Austen,” had been undergoing renovations…”

[ARTnews @artnews]

An ancient Roman sarcophagus containing two skeletons was recently unearthed in Bath, England, offering a “rare glimpse into local burial practices” during the Roman era.

https://t.co/uZwVKFC1Z2

[#VirtualJaneCon @virtualjanecon]

All Jane Austen. All the time*.

*Or just for one weekend.

It’s time for #VirtualJaneCon again! This year the event will be on YouTube May 1 -2, and applications for programming close on April 17.

[Jane AustenCompanion @JaneAustenWrite]

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[Jane Austen’s House @JaneAustenHouse]

💫 We’re overjoyed that our Guided Virtual Tour has been featured by @Forbes as one of the world’s best virtual tours! 💫

https://t.co/H3IIJn3cB2

🎟 Join us for our next tour: https://t.co/Q7MDvpAow3

[Literary Hub @lithub]

Jane's addiction(?)
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[Kim Wilson @KimWilsonAuthor]

"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." - Jane Austen, 1815.

Happy Pi Day!

[Jane Austen Summer Program @jaustensummer]

Early-bird registration for the four-day virtual Jane Austen Summer Program -- "Jane Austen's World," exploring her life and letters -- ends April 1. Sign up now to take advantage of our discounted registration price. https://t.co/OSTSxW4NF5