After being good friends through this blog for a long time now, I finally managed to meet one of the blog's most loyal fans. Marianna an...

This weekend I choose a famous quote from Marianne Dashwood that echoes what has been happening to my life. Although Marianne was in her rec...

The theme of trust to Icha's quote from last week stayed with me and I have been thinking about it often the last few days. I do agree w...

For this week, I purposely tried to search for a quote about trusting someone. I first focused myself on either Darcy (for his innate mistru...

In Chapter 11 of Emma we find a description of Mr. John Knightley that gives us quite a display of Jane Austen’s ability to draw a character...

In Chapter 10 of Emma we find Harriet and Emma out walking and Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family who lived a litt...

I have chosen to honour Sense and Sensibility this week and the wonderful character of Elinor. In Chapter 24 Elinor has to listen to Lucy S...

Yesterday I experienced something that made me recall this famous quote uttered by none other than Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley. Pride ...

For you ladies who were gaga over Jeremy Northam's Mr. Knigthley, we are having another treat! Yes we do! For my dearest Mr. Knigthley h...

Apologies for the rather belated quote for friends in Australasia (it's almost dinner time on Sunday here). I finally picked a quote fro...

A few months ago we uploaded news about the making of a Bollywood version of Emma. The Indian adaptation is titled 'Aisha', played b...

Continuing in Emma with the discussion between Emma and Mr. Knightley in Chapter 8, we find the following quote simply stuffed full of what...

I have chosen a quote from one of the letters Jane wrote to Cassandra. This one was written on Thursday April 18th 1811. I think it is one o...

This time I also go with simple stuffs (particularly because I've been contemplating on heavy stuffs enough this week). We know hat bonn...

It's Sunday here in Australia, so wake up from the hang-over, Ladies! Ooops. That might be a wrong thing to say. Do ladies who read Jane...

Dearest Linda provided me with this information on the 3rd Annual Jane Austen Awards and its survey and a very interesting (and difficult ...

In Emma, Chapter 8, we find Emma and Mr. Knightley discussing the fact that Harriet has refused Mr. Martin. Emma observes: Oh! to be sure,...

I realised that we have not used a quote from Sense and Sensibility for a while so thought that I would base this weeks quote on Marianne D...

This week I shall pull a quote from Miss Austen’s letter to niece Fanny Knight on 13 March 1816. Since all my JA resources are either in Bal...

In Chapter 7 of Emma we find another tidbit of advice about marriage where Emma and Harriet are discussing the merits of Mr. Martin: ...