Emma by Jane Austen.Edited by Brian Reeve. Alma Classics, 2015 (1816). Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. I’ve been trying very … Continue reading About Miss Woodhouse: #ReadingAusten2025| Calmgrove Books
Plan of a Novel according to Hints from Various Quarters [1816] by Jane Austen, in Catharine and Other Writings. The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1993.¹ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists [1856] and other essaysby George Eliot. Renard Press, 2023.² “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality … Continue reading A genus with many species: #ReadingAusten2025| Calmgrove Books
Godmersham Park, Kent. In case you thought – after the second of two reviews and at least two discussion posts – that I had said all I needed to say about Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield P…| Calmgrove Books
James Andrews’ insipid watercolour portrait of Jane Austen (1869) based on Cassandra’s. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Penguin Popular Classics, 1994 (1814). “‘I do no…| Calmgrove Books
Cartoon (2017) by Dan Piraro ( The stack of books on my bedside table waiting to be read has at times become alarmingly high (as my partner often reminds me) but luckily has not yet proved fatal, s…| Calmgrove Books
Jane Austen: watercolour by her sister Cassandra. “I can’t bear Jane Austen’s tedious books,” thundered one recent pundit in a UK national daily newspaper (I won’t men…| Calmgrove Books
This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, look forward to Reading Jane Austen 2025, call attention to Spanish Portuguese L…| Book Jotter