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21 July 2005

AustenBlog Analog

Filed under: Online — Mags @ 11:44 pm

We have posted this link in the past, but newer AustenBlog readers may not have seen it, and we would not want anyone to miss it. :-)

The Alberta Burke Notebooks at Goucher College is a fascinating site for Janeites. Mrs. Burke was a lifelong collector of Austeniana. From the 1930s through 1973, Mrs. Burke kept notebooks in which she pasted articles about Jane Austen and anything to do with Jane Austen in popular culture–including many articles about P&P0, the Broadway musical version of P&P, etc. There is also correspondence with dealers from which she bought letters written by Jane Austen, first editions of the novels (Emma, uncut and in boards, for £135, and a first edition of NA for SEVEN POUNDS. We are not making this up). She bequeathed the notebooks to the Julia Rogers Library of Goucher College, which has imaged the notebooks and other materials and placed them online.

Mrs. Burke’s husband, Henry, was one of the founders of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

Be warned, one can spend hours browsing this fascinating collection!

One Response to “AustenBlog Analog”

  1. Jen Says:

    OH. MY. GOD!! (in a perfectly Janice voice)

    This collection is unbelievable! Thank you so, so much, Mags.

    Your kind warning, however, seems to be already lost on me. I only browsed a few photos and articles, but it took me a good hour already and I just cannot get out of it! HELP.

 

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