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Guest Post – A Jane Austen Trail by Joana Starnes

Please welcome Joana Starnes as our guest to the blog today. In further celebration of our Jane in January month of posts she’s taking us on a tour of some houses and places associated with our beloved author! Thank you very much for joining us, Joana, and over to you. As any Jane Austen devotee, …

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Jane in January – Pride and Prejudice Illustrators – Jane Odiwe

  We’re in week 2 of our ‘Jane in January’ event and hope you are enjoying our special focus on “Pride and Prejudice.”     Happy New Year! I thought I’d welcome the new year in with a look at some of the illustrators of the past who have imagined and depicted Jane Austen’s Pride and …

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A little Jane for the Holidays: Mr. Darcy’s Christmas Calendar

The holidays are fast approaching and it seems like an ideal time to indulge in our favorite thing at Austen Variations, share our variations on Jane Austen’s works.   It’s Christmas Eve, and I hope, like me, you are all enjoying happy times with your families in this holiday season. I’ve really been hoping it would …

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Persuasion 200 – Anne Elliot’s First Impressions of Lyme – Jane Odiwe

  The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night, but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not leave much time for seeing a new place, …

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Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar Excerpt – Jane Odiwe

Today’s excerpt is a glimpse at some of what happens at the ‘Chawton Ball’ – I hope you enjoy it! Here are links to chapters one, two and three, in case you missed them. They were trotting down the long driveway at last, she saw with some relief, and as the other carriages turned in the …

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Sue Wilkes – A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England – Guest Post

We are welcoming Sue Wilkes to the blog today – you may know Sue from the lovely articles she writes for Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, and for the many history books she’s written. To give you a little flavour of her book, Sue’s here to tell us about the reading matter of Jane Austen and her contemporaries in ‘Chit-chat …

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Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar – Book Launch – Jane Odiwe

I’m so excited to announce the publication of Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar! Can you believe it’s November already? I’ve been getting in the Christmas spirit, though I’ve not done very much shopping yet – I love the upcoming festive season, but there is always so much to do, isn’t there? I’ve been wanting to finish …

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Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar – Chapter Two – Jane Odiwe

I’ve had such a lovely time writing this book – to be able to combine all my favourite things into a special Christmas novella has been immense fun. Christmas is always a magical time, and so when a little bit of magic helps to propel my heroine, Lizzy, into the world of Pride and Prejudice, she feels …

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Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar – a new novella – Jane Odiwe

I’m really excited to share an excerpt from my new novella, Mr Darcy’s Christmas Calendar. This is a tale I started working on more than two years ago, and though I managed to write a great part of it during that time, other writing projects meant it always took a back seat. I love writing Christmas …

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Persuasion 200: Impromptu Ball at Uppercross – Jane Odiwe

The party at the Great House was sometimes increased by other company. The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by every body, and had more dinner parties, and more callers, more visitors by invitation and by chance, than any other family. They were more completely popular. The girls were wild for dancing; …

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