Mark Brownlow

Author of Mr Bennet's Memoirs and the Charlotte Collins Mysteries. Travel writer and fictioneer interested in all realms of the imagination.

[Mark Brownlow @markbrownlow]

Mr Bennet's tale of love, regret, and second chances is here. Available for Kindle, Kindle Unlimited & bookcases.

Port & Proposals: https://t.co/DHXoYjS0n7

Enjoy his wit & wisdom as he deals with reticent bachelors, stubborn daughters...and his own past. Cheers!

[Mark Brownlow @markbrownlow]

@AustenMicrocosm Sending a virtual hug!

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@Austen1stDrafts Nobody will remember your salary...except Mrs Bennet

[Jane Austen First Drafts @Austen1stDrafts]

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- your dance skills
- your delicate compliments
- how fortunate you've been as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks

[Frances Hardinge @FrancesHardinge]

I firmly believe that time spent reading books should not be subtracted from your lifespan. You should be able to step aside into Book Time, spend as long there as you like, then resume Ordinary Life Time at the same point you left. Clearly a superior arrangement.

[Mark Brownlow @markbrownlow]

Read Jane Austen...

[Will Dean @willrdean]

People over 50: what advice would you give your younger self?

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@LaurieBwrites Gorgeous pic!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Men who dismiss Jane Austen as “women’s fiction” are missing out. She’s one of our funniest and wisest writers.

A thread of her best lines:

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

'To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.'

- W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

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My day is made. After all, this is a man who understands muslins...

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@newromantic77 Thank you. We had a lovely time (It's my favourite Austen novel.)

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Trip to the coast, so an easy choice for sunrise reading...

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

How many books should I take on holiday with me? (For @GuardianBooks ).

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@dteeters I did spot a gentleman with something of the Elliot countenance. How fortunate we were not introduced

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@Austen1stDrafts My wife wisely chose not to leap into my arms. She knows the book (and my limitations)

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@johnbrown1325 Only in the past...

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I'm told a little sea-bathing would set me up for ever

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@roseservitova Happy Anniversary! 🥂

[Mark Brownlow @markbrownlow]

@Avid_eva Ah, good, because I was getting curious glances down the post office

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

'Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.'

John Lubbock, The Use of Life