I have recently started a new job and although the following quote does not match how I feel some of the time, it is definitely how I wish t...

Since my Jane Austen quote of the Week No. 224, I have done some more research on the subject of the slave trade, mainly due to a friend me...

We haven't done Mansfield Park for a while, so I thought of pulling something from MP. I found this one below, and although I wasn'...

I have used this quote before back in August 2008 but I thought it was particularly apt this special weekend of Easter. From chapter 20 of ...

Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy), from DokinaCZ   I recently stumbled across the following article and I simply had to pass it on to you. ...

Have you ever been agitated, vexed out because you sent a rather long letter (read: email, SMS), and yet received a very short reply instead...

I was reading some of Jane Austen's letters to her niece Fanny Knight and the following quote grabbed my attention. It is taken from  le...

  Statue of Wilberforce at Yorkshire This past week I had a "light-bulb" moment after viewing the movie "Amazing Grac...

Thanks to Mariana we have been reminded of a great quote in Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 when there is a discussion about Mr Bingley's...

Regency courtship, from Austenauthors This week’s quote is about Valentine’s Day, which happened on last Thursday. It was taken f...

Although this is not strictly a "Tom" quote, this one is especially for Mariana who is researching the Tom/Jane love affair. I was...

This week I have chosen the quote from Chapter 22 of Northanger Abbey: “But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a ...

Today is the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice which was first published on 28 January 1813 by Thomas Egerton of London. I...

Sally Hawkins for Anne Elliot in Persuasion 2007 I found this short sentence in Persuasion just now. Volume 1 Chapter 1, page 10 (Oxfor...

Syrie James is the bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed novels, including The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen, The Lost Memoir...

Emma and Harriet with winter muffs to repel cold (but not effective to get rid of Mr Elton), from this site   Tis the winter season...

I have chosen a quote from chapter VII, page 197, of the Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy . This is an extract from a letter to his wife,...