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Jane Austen’s Ring Campaign now accepting online donations 23 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
Alert Janeite Cinthia let us know that the JA House Museum is now accepting online donations at http://www.justgiving.com/jamt/Donate. The suggested amounts are shown in your local currency–and you ca...
Anonymous Donor Contributes £100,000 Towards Jane Austen Ring Purchase 13 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
More good news! Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced that an anonymous donor has contributed £100,000 towards the purchase of Jane Austen’s turquoise ring from Kelly Clarkson. The museum has now r...
Jane Austen’s House Museum Raising Funds to Buy Her Ring (UPDATED with information about donating) 11 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
YES! Jane Austen’s House Museum has announced a fundraiser to raise money to purchase Jane Austen’s turquoise ring from Kelly Clarkson (see our previous post and the lively discussion that followed). ...
REVIEW: Austenland 11 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
We have viewed the approach of the release of Austenland with very mixed feelings. On the good side, the trailer looked like fun, and Jennifer Coolidge is usually a riot. On the other side, we read th...
PBS Will Air Death Comes to Pemberley 11 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
The title says it all. No air date announced, but we suspect it will be part of 2014′s Masterpiece lineup. The question, of course, is will it be part of Masterpiece Classic (earlier in the year) or M...
REVIEW: Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe 4 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
Disclaimer: I was interviewed for this book, becoming acquainted (dare I say, friendly) with the author in the process. I disclose that for the sake of transparency; it did not affect my opinion of th...
An Appeal to Kelly Clarkson: Do the Right Thing 4 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
We didn’t mention this back when it happened because we were on our latest Unscheduled Blog Hiatus (cough), but a while back, singer and former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson purchased a turquois...
The Amorous Effects of Brass 4 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
First, the good news, which no doubt most of our Gentle Readers have heard by now: Jane Austen will be on the UK ten-pound note beginning in 2017! We experienced a mix of emotions upon hearing the new...
Sense and Sensibility Dramatization on BBC Radio 4 4 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a radio dramatization of Sense and Sensibility in two parts. Part 1 is available to listen to right now and for the next week (we can listen to it here in the U.S., so hopef...
Things We Learned From Clueless 21 Jul 2013 | 01:13 pm
We were delighted and bemused to see several articles celebrating the 18th anniversary of the release of Clueless (which, as apparently some people don’t know, is really a fairly faithful adaptation o...
