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I don't read much Austenesque fiction these days, but when I heard that Laura Hile (who wrote the fabulous Mercy's Embrace  3-pa...

A few years ago, my regional JASNA organization had a meeting in which we looked at how Jane Austen influenced other writers.  ...

Saari at  Mangoes and Cherry Blossoms  is hosting a weekly  Classics Salon  wherein participants chat about the classic works of literature ...

My first book of 2014 is Jo Baker's Longbourn , which tells the stories of the servants who wait on the Bennet family of Jane Austen...

Stephanie of stephanie's written word is doing a giveaway of two, count 'em two, copies of my collection of Austen-inspired short st...

I meant to make this posting on W&D about the passive aggressiveness of both Mr. and Mrs. Gibson (don't you just "love" ho...

I confess, I was really looking forward to reading about how Two Guys Read Jane Austen . I had a nice long flight from Denver to Boston on S...

Observations on both books that I'm currently reading. I'm sailing through Daphne , and am nearing the end. It is still as fascinat...

My mother always told me that if I couldn’t say something nice about someone to not say anything at all. Dorothy Parker quipped that if you...

I started this Colleen McCullough novel this afternoon and, as expected, am feeling ambiguous about it. On the one hand, McCullough is a go...

I posted on the similarities of plot lines here ; the background on Gaskell and her reputation pre-N&S here ; similarities of language a...

I posted on the similarities of plot lines here ; the background on Gaskell and her reputation pre-N&S here ; and similarities of langua...

TeresaAF from Elegant Extracts made an interesting comment on my post about the similarities between P&P and N&S with regards to th...

I posted on the similarities of plot lines here , and the background on Gaskell and her reputation pre-N&S here . So the next step is to...

A few weeks ago, I posted about what I saw as the striking similarities between Pride and Prejudice and North and South . Now, I'd like ...

Let me tell you about a love story between a woman and a man whose initial encounter was marred by prejudice, misunderstanding, and pride to...