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A Happy Jane Austen Birthday Event With Free Gifts! Coming December 16th

It wouldn't be fair to neglect someone as important and dear to us as Jane Austen on her birthday. She was born on 16th December 1775, it’ll be 235 years next week . We owe so many immensely pleasant moments to her that we decided she deserved a great B-day celebration. My Jane Austen Book Club and other bloggers and Austen dedicated writers are going to have a blog party in her honour. You are all invited to join us on our “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANE!” event next Thursday December 16th. Who will be there? Where is the party going on?

My other blog, Jane Austen's World, will be joining in on the celebration! As well as these other fine authors and bloggers:

Adriana Zardini at Jane Austen Sociedad do Brasil
Laurel Ann at Austenprose
Katherine Cox at November’s Autumn
Karen Wasylowski at her blog
Laurie Viera Rigler at Jane Austen Addict Blog
Lynn Shepherd at her blog
Jane GS at Reading, Writing, Working, Playing
Jane Odiwe at Jane Austen Sequels
Alexa Adams at First Impressions
Regina Jeffers at her blog
Cindy Jones at First Draft
Janet Mullany at Risky Regencies
Meredith at Austenesque Reviews
Maria Grazia at My Jane Austen Book Club

You’ll find Happy Birthday posts and tributes to Jane Austen on all these blogs on December 16th with the HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANE logo created by Adriana Zardini (JASBRA) just for the occasion. Lovely, isn’t it? Visit all the blogs on December 16th and leave your comments + e-mail address to have lots of chances to win one of the wonderful gifts we are giving away:

The books include - 1 signed copy of…

Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
Intimations of Austen by Jane Greensmith
Darcy's Passions: Fitzwilliam Darcy's Story by Regina Jeffers
First Impressions. A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice by Alexa Adams
Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
Bespelling Jane Austen by Janet Mullany

Other gifts:

Austen bag offered by Karen Wasylowski
DVD Pride & Prejudice 2005 offered by Regina Jeffers
Package of Bingley's Tea. (flavor "Marianne's Wild Abandon" ) offered by Cindy Jones
DVD Jane Austen in Manhattan offered by Maria Grazia
3 issues of Jane Austen Regency World offered by Maria Grazia

Giveaways will end on December 23rd . Winners will be announced by Maria Grazia, organizer of this celebration, on My Jane Austen Book Club.

Friday Follow: Amanda Vickery's Georgians

Gentle Readers, Mary Ellen Foley from the excellent blog, ME Foley's Anglo-American Experience, forwarded this PDF document of a Radio Times article on Amanda Vickery's BBC2 specials on Georgian houses. Tonight BBC2 aired the second of three installments, A Woman's Touch, which unfortunately was available only in the British Isles.

Click on image to read the article

Read my review of Episode One: At Home With the Georgians, A Man's Place on Jane Austen's World.

Snow at Chawton and Chawton Cottage

Gentle readers, Tony Grant from London Calling and contributor to this blog and Jane Austen's World shot these beautiful images during last week's snow in England. We see so many pictures of Chawton and Chawton Cottage in spring and summer with tourists all around. One can hear the silence in this waning light. Just lovely.