I must apologise for this late posting- I have actually been in Ireland for the week visiting family. I am in love with the country. Since m...

From Persuasion, Chapter 10: "Anne was still in the lane and though instinctively beginning to decline, she was not allowed to proceed....

This week my quote is from Northanger Abbey. Catherine and Henry are discussing Henry's brother's flirtations with Catherine's ...

This is non-BJ related (actually, Atonement-related. Good movie. Michelle, where’s that Atonement assignment?!) , but since I missed James M...

Ah… sweet sixteen… before Michelle’s turn next week (nudge!) for the sweet seventeen. Anyway, for it’s sweet 16, I should come up with somet...

I'm so happy to have so many passionate readers and talented friends to contribute to this website. Take a look at this gorgeous fanvid ...

Dearest Mariana sent us a pack of lovely pictures of her renditions of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) and Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), one of the...

I am delighted to announce that the winner of our quiz which we launched in commemoration of the anniversary of Jane Austen's death is.....

I have been thinking about this one as a quote of the week for a while but I wasnt sure. On reflection, however, I think it is highly signif...

This helpful quote is from P&P, Chapter 56: “You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.” Here is the context for that gem...

A rather bad news for Carrigglas, I'm afraid. And it's two months old news anyway, so there might be some other news I'm not awa...

I posted a trivia quiz this time last week. I hope you all enjoyed it. Here are the answers: 1. Of the following characters, who was fictio...

Thanks to Maria, here's a freshly made fan-video to commemorate Jane Austen's death yesterday. It's lovely and touching, as alw...

As Jane Austen’s most famous novel is Pride & Prejudice , I decided to pull out this quote to commemorate her passing away this 18 July....

Dearest friends, This Friday, 18 July, exactly 191 years ago, Jane Austen left this world. I understand that some fans are not comfortab...

I am so torn this week - I have a handful of amazing quotes to post - but I have decided to go with Mary Crawford and Mansfield Park. “My de...

I thought that it would be nice to do a 20-question trivia quiz for our faithful fans who love the film, Becoming Jane, as much as us. Icha ...

I read this essay, Pride & Prejudice by Beth Lau in A Companion to Romanticism, edited by Douglas Wu . First, I will briefly summaris...

I opened my Fiction Study Guide this morning, to begin work for Semester Two, and this is what I read: ...One is the idea that by looking ...

My dear friends, It turned out that many fans are interested with the passage read by Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) at the end of Becoming...