New goodies at the Jane Austen Centre Web site
We wish we were in Bath this summer (actually we wish we were there most of the time), but we can enjoy the offerings of the Centre’s Web site anywhere we have Internet access.
Check out the new quiz, which is pretty tough! We are told the questions will rotate occasionally, so check back often.
Also, Chapter 7 of There Must Be Murder has been posted. Catherine gets some distressing news and overhears an interesting conversation, but may herself become the subject of unkind gossip.
The Centre’s online magazine offers its usual excellent selection of new articles, including a period recipe for lemonade, Jane Austen’s final piece of writing, a review of Persuasion 2007, a biography of George III, and instructions for making a chatelaine.
This month’s sample article from Jane Austen’s Regency World is “Rejecting Jane,” in which slightly reworked bits of Jane Austen’s novels were sent to unsuspecting literary agents and publishers, with mixed but predictable results; but if that was the real query letter they sent, we suspect that was the cause of the rejections more than the content of the work.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:00 am
These were interesting! Thanks for sharing Mags! I particularly liked the piece on King George III but the “Rejecting Jane” article was a hoot. And being a southern girl, I like any recipe that calls for a pound of sugar
Of course, I’ve already praised the 7th chapter of There Must Be Murder over at Molland’s but I’ll say again, that I have been enjoying these monthly installments greatly and the story just keeps getting better and better. I particularly liked the “what would Emily do?” line
And Henry…*drool*…you write him well Mags!
July 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Who offers the best”Jane Austen Tour” of England?
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I really enjoyed the Jane Austen walking tour of Bath done through the Centre. It is very interesting to have all the spots from the novels pointed out. You also get to go into the pumproom, assembly room and hear all sorts of tidbits about Jane and her time.