Hi, everyone! Hope you’re having a lovely and sunny morning. I’m Joana Starnes, this is my first post at Austen Variations and I’m honoured and super-excited to join the team! I might as well have started the post with ‘Hi, I’m Joana Starnes, and I am a JAFF addict. I hope to stay a JAFF …
How well did you know locations from Jane Austen’s life and locations from Austen adaptations? Answers for the Austen Variations portion will be here and the answers for part two will be on my blog at lldiamondwrites.com. Just in case you were curious about the actual answers, here we go! This house …
How well do you know locations from Jane Austen’s life and locations from Austen adaptations? Today, Abigail Reynolds and I are going to test your knowledge of these places in two quizzes! How well do you know Jane Austen? Can you guess these locations from Jane Austen’s life? This house is unfortunately no longer …
Anne held the guidebook of Bath in her hand, but after reading the same paragraph for the third time, she closed it. Her thoughts were elsewhere—Molland’s to be exact. She was still attempting to understand what had happened at the confectioner’s shop a day earlier. She had just finished a cup of tea and a …
“They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.” – Northanger Abbey On a trip to Bath a couple of summers ago, I was fortunate to visit an old “friend in Jane,” another …
In Persuasion, Anne visits Bath with her family. One of the most popular sites was Molland’s, a confectionery store, where she would have enjoyed a cup of hot tea and a sweet. Sweets included dried fruits, gingerbread, cakes, sugared almonds, and jellied fruits. Anne was sent back, however, in a moment by the entrance of …
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