I recently ran across a web site that prompted me to find out what our Jane Austen had to say on the subject of "defining a gentleman...

Still related to Father's Day, although not in the best of light compared to Rachel's thoughtful Tom Lefroy quote last week, I took ...

I don't know about you but I love the Bridget Jones's Diary books (by Helen Fielding) and films. Laurie Viera Rigler (author of Co...

Next sunday (19th June) in the UK it is Fathers Day so I thought I would chose a quote from a letter Tom wrote to his son taken from Tom Lef...

For you fine ladies and gents who do not dabble in science fiction literature, this post may not be for you. But I'd like to put it here...

Here is the story that led me to this week's quote. I have most recently looked into 'other cultures/lands' than my native Ameri...

This week's quote is taken from Jane Austen's letter #22 (25 October 1800), written to Cassandra from Steventon: The weather does n...

Thanks to Linda for the lovely news, we found that Anne Hathaway visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath! Awww... reminds me of the old time ...

I have chosen a quote from Northanger Abbey. "Catherine would make a sad, heedless young house-keeper to be sure," was her mother...

Following the announcement we made over a year ago (geez... that long?), we'd like to inform you gentle readers that the Memoir of Chief...

For our Tom quote this week, I have taken a small excerpt from a letter to his wife found in the " Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy ....

This week’s quote was taken from Pride and Prejudice Chapter 32 (Penguin edition 2003, p. 175), where Mr Darcy visited Elizabeth at Mr Colli...

Thanks ever so for Maria who is always excited to send us darling monthly Becoming Jane calendars! The May edition is this one, and can be d...

In chapter 21 of Emma the marriage of Mr Elton to Miss Hawkins has just been announced by Miss Bates. She says: "It is such a happines...

Of special interest this week (with a surprise at the end) in Pride &Prejudice is Miss Mary King. We find her mentioned in the followi...

I wanted to acknowledge some of the great features in this months The Jane Austen Centre Monthly Newsletter . Firstly an article entitled Ar...

This week I have chosen a quote from Sanditon . Jane Austen died in 1817 leaving Sanditon unfinished. The novel is about the generation of...

This week's quote was, once more, taken from Pride & Prejudice. Chapter 18 of Volume III (Chapter 60) in which Elizabeth and Darcy ...

Since we are on the subjects of cakes, I did a bit more research on ‘sponge cakes’. The word ‘cake’ is mentioned once in Pride and Prejudice...

This weekend’s quote was taken from Jane Austen’s letter in 1808 which was written for Cassandra Austen. It was a simple, no-brainer quote ...