I hope she does not mind telling our readers but Linda is celebrating a very special birthday today. Happy Birthday Linda!! I have picked a...

This week's quote is taken from Jane Austen's Letters (Le Fay 1995), p. 305. Letter 132(D). To James Stanier Clarke Monday 11 Dece...

My Tom quote this week comes from a footnote explaining the Lefroy lineage in Chapter 1 of the Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy : "Anto...

Happy New Year to you all. I was reading chaper 31 of Sense and Sensibility and I have chosen a couple of quotes. In this chapter Elinor an...

I've been aware of this news for at least a month now, but just kept forgetting to post it. Anyway, yes Ladies and Gents: the Jane Auste...

Found this one on Etsy again; the tag says Edwardian wedding dress, but I think it's very much a Regency style. Size small, so definitel...

Happy New Year my dear friends! From the bottom of our hearts, Team Jane wishes you the best year ever (so far of course, and much more ...

For our Christmas quote this year, I searched Pride and Prejudice for a mention of Christmas. What I was particularly looking for was ...

This week was meant to be Tom's turn but considering it was Jane's 235th birthday yesterday we thought that Tom would not mind if we...

Our deep gratitude once more to Laura Boyle of the Jane Austen Centre UK for using one of Becoming Jane Fansite articles in their prestigio...

Roxana reminded me that yesterday (Australian time) was Jane Austen's 235th birthday (thanks Roxana!). Since it's still 16 December ...

Nicole from Etsy gave me this link to a very pretty dress (right side) that might be desirable for some of us. It's not truly faithful ...

I should stop visiting Etsy; but in my defense, if I didn't visit that place, I wouldn't find my Austen dress. There was another ite...

In conjunction with the publication of the new anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Ballantine Books, Austenprose.com, and The Republic of P...

Oh, I found another Austen dress for sale in Etsy! Click here for the said Etsy shop . I bought mine from the same shop. This green dress lo...

Actually, it is my turn to do a Tom quote this week but having re-watched Pride and Prejudice (both 1995 and 2005) this week, I want to do a...

This week's quote was provided by Linda. It is a Jane quote, but it is heavily related to Tom Lefroy. Enjoy! JA Letter to Cassandra, Sat...

Forgive my indulgence Ladies and Gents... but I have a story to tell. I know this humble Jane Austen fan who could not help herself when she...

I have chosen a quote from a conversation between Catherine and Henry in chapter 16 of Northanger Abbey . “With you, it is not, How is such ...

For the second quote of Tom Lefroy this weekend, I chose the opening paragraph from a letter he wrote to his eldest daughter Jane Christmas...