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Reading
Our Library
At each meeting our library is open to members to borrow materials until the
next meeting, with a small fee of 25 cents. To plan your reading in advance,
review the Library List.
Detailed information is on the Annotated List.
If you cannot wait until the next meeting, try the resources of the
Calgary Public Library.
Book News
Murder Mystery
Great author PD James
has combined her expertise in writing thrillers with her love of Jane Austen in
Death Comes to Pemberley.
Also listen to a video interview with PD James.
Arsenic Poisoning?
Crime writer,
Lindsay Ashford, has reviewed Jane Austen's letters and postulates she died of
arsenic poisoning.
Don't think it is possible? Perhaps her novel
The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen will persuade you.
Austen Every Day
For a calmer mind, consult A Jane Austen Devotional.
Old News
Read about Jane Austen's growing fame in The Literary World, August 23, 1889.
The full publication is available on
Google Books (requires sign-in to Google).
Her Fault
Newly released Jane Austen Made Me Do It
is a collection of new short stories inspired by Jane Austen.
"Jane" on screen
Samantha Adkins JASNA Calgary member and author has created her own promotional video for her novel,
Expectations.
Enjoy her acting on Youtube.
Stovel Book of Essays
The University of Alberta Press has published a collection of essays,
Jane Austen and Company by Bruce and Nora Stovel.
We come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her successors Waugh and Amis.
Juliet McMaster wrote the introduction, and our own Isobel Grundy wrote the afterword.
Personal Meditations
JASNA Montreal sent us the link to Deb Barnum's great
blog
for JASNA-Vermont on Rachel Brownstein's Why Jane Austen
and William William Deresiewicz's
A Jane Austen Education.
They have an App for that!
Nuno Fonseca of Software Adventures sent us this press release.
We are please to announce the release of the "Jane Austen - Fan Kit" App for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch.
This App, designed for Jane Austen's Fans, includes quotes, ebooks, movie suggestions and trivia.
- Start the day with a new Jane Austen's quote.
- Read almost every published work from Jane Austen (everywhere).
- Need help choosing the movie for next movie night?
- Test your knowledge regarding Jane Austen's life, books and movie adaptations.
The App is available for $0.99 (voucher codes available at request) at the
App Store.
Watsons Manuscript Bought by Bodleian
On 2011 July 14 the Bodleian Library
purchased at auction the last privately-held manuscript written by Jane Austen.
The Watsons is an unfinished novel and will be part of a public exhibition in the fall.
These links tell the story of how the manuscript remained in Britain.
Experience
For those of us who dream about "what happened after", Experience, a new sequel to Pride and Prejudice, entertains with a delightful story.
Read a review by local author and JASNA Calgary member,
Samantha Adkins.
Gala Links
The Juvenilia Press
publishes books written by well-known authors when when they were young.
Jane Austen's books are laugh-out-loud funny.
Rowland McMaster
has provided a reading list for those who want to know more about Women on
Men-of-war.
Views on Jane Austen
Jane Austen's Family and Friends
Sir Walter Scott
Charlotte Bronte
Local Authors
- The Bath Novels of Lady A~
New reading pleasures are to be found in The Bath Novels of Lady A~.
The first, Merits and Mercenaries, is available
online
from the author's Regency-style web site.
Merits and Mercenaries/ ‘Classic Companion I’™, The Bath Novels of Lady A~’s debut novel,
is a dashing tale about the perplexing pursuit of love and self-discovery,
which races for resolution— upon comedy and drama— across both town and country.
As the protagonists William Halford and Katherine Huntley seek some happy end,
a host of vivid villains strive to perilously prevent it— while the shadow of a
most menacing secret relentlessly stalks the story’s entire cast.
- Expectations
Strathmore author, Samantha Adkins
wrote Expectations, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, for her sister's
birthday. Expectations
is set six months after Pride and Prejudice
ends, in the style and voice of Jane Austen. It begins at Longbourn with Mrs. Bennet
exhorting Mr. Bennet to write his married daughters, Elizabeth Darcy and Jane Bingley,
telling them they must provide male heirs for their new husbands.
Find out more about Expectations and make a purchase
online.
Links to Books and More
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