Black Girl Loves Jane
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“I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. . . . It is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.” – Northanger Abbey
May you take the time to learn more about Black History. It may vex you, challenge you, or inspire you. However, there is nothing dull about it.
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Jane Austen Society of Flanders
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‘…they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal’
Jane Austen ~ Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen – Her Works and Her World
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The ladies had not been long in the drawing-room, before the other ladies, in their different divisions, arrived. Emma watched the entrée of her own particular little friend; and if she could not exult in her dignity and grace, she could not only love the blooming sweetness and the artless manner, but could most heartily rejoice in that light, cheerful, unsentimental disposition which allowed her so many alleviations of pleasure, in the midst of the pangs of disappointed affection. There she sat—and who would have guessed how many tears she had been lately shedding? To be in company, nicely dressed herself and seeing others nicely dressed, to sit and smile and look pretty, and say nothing, was enough for the happiness of the present hour. Jane Fairfax did look and move superior; but Emma suspected she might have been glad to change feelings with Harriet, very glad to have purchased the mortification of having loved—yes, of having loved even Mr. Elton in vain—by the surrender of all the dangerous pleasure of knowing herself beloved by the husband of her friend.
Emma by Jane Austen
Volume 2, Chapter 8
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Jane Austen – Her Works and Her World
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“Indeed you injure me if you suppose me unconvinced. Your reasonings carry my judgment along with them entirely. At first, while I supposed you satisfied that Col. Campbell was the giver, I saw it only as paternal kindness, and thought it the most natural thing in the world. But when you mentioned Mrs. Dixon, I felt how much more probable that it should be the tribute of warm female friendship. And now I can see it in no other light than as an offering of love.”
There was no occasion to press the matter farther. The conviction seemed real; he looked as if he felt it. She said no more, other subjects took their turn; and the rest of the dinner passed away; the dessert succeeded, the children came in, and were talked to and admired amid the usual rate of conversation; a few clever things said, a few downright silly, but by much the larger proportion neither the one nor the other—nothing worse than everyday remarks, dull repetitions, old news, and heavy jokes.
Emma by Jane Austen
Volume 2, Chapter 8
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Jane Austen – Her Works and Her World
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Seek tirelessly and you shall not find a contemporary heroine of middle-grade literature as refined and romantic as Miss Polly Madassa. Still swooning over the romantic conclusions of Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, twelve-year-old Polly decides her purpose in life: helping along lonely hearts in search of love. Polly’s only task this summer is to make deliveries for her parents’ bakery, leaving ample time for this young cupid to find hearts to mend–beginning with the kite-store owner, Mr. Nightquist, who will pair perfectly with Miss Wiskerton (the unfairly labeled town curmudgeon). Polly’s best friend Fran Fisk is in desperate need of a mother ever since hers ran off with a man she met on the Internet; Polly must find a match for Mr. Fisk. And while she’s at it, it wouldn’t hurt to find Clementine, Polly’s teenaged sister, a beau worthy of her (so she can shed that brute, Clint). Polly’s plans are in full swing, so she definitely cannot be bothered by the advances of classmate Brad Barker.
But maybe Polly should have turned her attention to Miss Austen’s Emma next, because she quickly learns the pitfalls of playing matchmaker. How will Polly patch up her own relationships, while ensuring that destined love can take its course?
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Strictly Jane Austen Tours
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Afternoon tea at the Bath Pump Rooms is one of the treats in store on our Discovering Jane travel adventures in Bath and Hampshire. Find out more here https://bit.ly/3wlJoZB
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Jane Austen – Her Works and Her World
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“And, upon my word, they have an air of great probability. Mr. Dixon’s preference of her music to her friend’s, I can answer for being very decided.”
“And then, he saved her life. Did you ever hear of that?—A water-party; and by some accident she was falling overboard. He caught her.”
“He did. I was there—one of the party.”
“Were you really?—Well!—But you observed nothing of course, for it seems to be a new idea to you.—If I had been there, I think I should have made some discoveries.”
“I dare say you would; but I, simple I, saw nothing but the fact, that Miss Fairfax was nearly dashed from the vessel and that Mr. Dixon caught her.—It was the work of a moment. And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable—indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again—yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable. I do not mean to say, however, that you might not have made discoveries.”
Emma by Jane Austen
Volume 2, Chapter 8
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Jane Austen – Her Works and Her World
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“Yes, and what you told me on that head, confirmed an idea which I had entertained before.—I do not mean to reflect upon the good intentions of either Mr. Dixon or Miss Fairfax, but I cannot help suspecting either that, after making his proposals to her friend, he had the misfortune to fall in love with her, or that he became conscious of a little attachment on her side. One might guess twenty things without guessing exactly the right; but I am sure there must be a particular cause for her chusing to come to Highbury instead of going with the Campbells to Ireland. Here, she must be leading a life of privation and penance; there it would have been all enjoyment. As to the pretence of trying her native air, I look upon that as a mere excuse.—In the summer it might have passed; but what can any body’s native air do for them in the months of January, February, and March? Good fires and carriages would be much more to the purpose in most cases of delicate health, and I dare say in her’s. I do not require you to adopt all my suspicions, though you make so noble a profession of doing it, but I honestly tell you what they are.”
Emma by Jane Austen
Volume 2, Chapter 8
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Happy P and P day from Flat Mr Darcy and Flat Jane Austen from JASNA Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho !!!!!
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Austen In Boston: A Jane Austen Book Club
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ane Austen Boutique Co.
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I think we can all agree that aside from the brilliant novels written by our beloved Jane Austen, our next favorite thing is watching movie and series adaptations which feature the intricate and interesting fashions of the Regency/Georgian time. In September of 2022 I was able to see, in person, 40 costume pieces from film and television adaptations of Austen’s works. Pre-selected by Cosprop Ltd., a costume house based in London, these garments had never before been displayed in a North American venue. The exhibition took place in the Taft Museum Gallery and historic house in Cincinnati, Ohio (my home town!) I present to you the first of 3 posts which feature the costumes I saw on this intriguing visit! 
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Austen In Boston: A Jane Austen Book Club
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Austen In Boston: A Jane Austen Book Club
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