August 2025 – Jane Austen in Vermont
2 posts published by BookLady Deb during August 2025| Jane Austen in Vermont
2 posts published by BookLady Deb during August 2025| Jane Austen in Vermont
Jane Austen’s Lady Susan: Watch Online Austen’s epistolary novel, delivered to your inbox: 41 short films in 41 days22 Sept – 1 Nov 2025 Calling all Jane Austen fans! Enjoy a daily dose of Austen in your inbox. Creation Theatre’s award-winning team presents a witty, digital adaptation of Lady Susan in celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary. Told… Continue reading Jane Austen’s ‘Lady Susan’ ~ Watch Online! 22 Sept – 1 Nov 2025| Jane Austen in Vermont
The Folio Society has a long history of publishing Jane Austen’s novels – some as sets, some as stand-alone editions of individual novels – I have them all and marvel at their variety, the differen…| Jane Austen in Vermont
Started the morning with Joy spotting yet another famous person – in the lobby of the hotel – a Gerald-Ford-Lookalike – Joy is very good at finding these people! [recall Churchill last night at The Wellington!] ********** We are off and running this morning to see as much as possible before the play tonight… We… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day XIII & XIV: Books, Fabrics, a Palace, ‘Clueless,’ and Home!| Jane Austen in Vermont
Hotel Indigo [from their website – I forgot to take a picture!] Our last group breakfast at our Hotel Indigo in Bath – hugs and goodbyes and “safe travels” to all who boarded the bus to Heath…| Jane Austen in Vermont
What a day! And the final one for those not doing the London two-day extension… To continue with our adventure yesterday touring around Austen-related places in Bath, you can see this map and this website where much is explained: https://18thc-cities.sorbonne-universite.fr/-Map-of-Bath-1803-Jane-Austen-s-.html#3 and this map from JASNA.org: *********** But now we are off first thing to the… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day XI: Bath, Bridgerton, and Rugby…| Jane Austen in Vermont
So, today I messed up Royally – was supposed to meet a friend, but misplaced days of the week in my head – travel can do that to you [anyone else out there have this happen??]. To me, today was a M…| Jane Austen in Vermont
1 post published by BookLady Deb during July 2025| Jane Austen in Vermont
Well, finally back to recounting this Jane adventure – I have been to London again and then to Belgium for a Flemish Art tour [fabulous trip with Martin Randall Travel] – so working on …| Jane Austen in Vermont
7 posts published by BookLady Deb during May 2025| Jane Austen in Vermont
Where oh where do I begin to tell of this joyous day? All places I have been before, but more engaging touring about with a group of like-minded people, and the chance to see so much more behind the scenes… We are today off from our Winchester hotel to Chawton – and there to see… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day VIII: The Delights of a Visit to Chawton| Jane Austen in Vermont
We are off to Winchester College to learn of its history and its connection to Jane Austen – several of her nephews went here – and we were privileged to see many of the treasures in the library, as well as the what was to be an exterior visit to 8 College Street, the location… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day VII: Winchester, the Beautiful and the Sad…| Jane Austen in Vermont
Coming off our visit to Steventon, we were given some free time to explore Winchester on our own, the Cathedral and College to be part of the Day 7 adventure. I have been to Winchester before, have seen all the spots associated with Jane, and at the 2003 AGM we had a grand banquet at… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day VI, Part 2: Winchester and the Hampshire Cultural Trust.| Jane Austen in Vermont
[Handout from P&G Wells Bookshop] Today we journey from Winchester to Jane Austen’s home ground – where she lived for the first 25 years of her life: Steventon. The house she and her siblings were born and raised in no longer stands, but thanks to her niece Anna Lefroy (or possibly her nephew-in-law Ben Lefroy),… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day VI: Hampshire…| Jane Austen in Vermont
This morning we headed off once again after our last English breakfast at Culpeper’s Restaurant at the Chilston Park Hotel… for a two-hour trek to Worthing, at the seaside, and where Jane Austen stayed in September 1805 ’til at least early November [Le Faye, Chronology, 319]. I have read about this time of her life… Continue reading Adventures with Jane! Day V: To Worthing and Winchester| Jane Austen in Vermont
I am ashamed to say I have never been to Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, so that was my goal this day – Ron had never been either, so we met there [right at the Hyde Park Gate, addres…| Jane Austen in Vermont
Random Musings of a Janeite| Jane Austen in Vermont
Jane Austen on Her Mansfield Park As we begin celebrating the bicentenary of the publication of Mansfield Park [it was first advertised on May 9, 1814 in The Star], I post here all the references t…| Jane Austen in Vermont
