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[A Holiday Shopping Spree for the Bookworm] Second Stop: Jane Austen Gift Shop
JANE AUSTEN GIFT SHOP
We all have at least one Pride and Prejudice disciple in our lives. Simplify your shopping list by visiting this enchanting site dedicated to a large and partially exclusive line of Jane Austen goodies. The online store is the retail arm of The Jane Austen Centre, appropriately located in the English city of Bath (which means much to Jane addicts the world over). Let’s begin our shopping tour!
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:
Jane Austen Places in Regency Bath Mug. £10.00 GBP. Image from the Jane Austen Gift Shop.
Bookmark-Keep Calm and Read Jane Austen. £3.00 GBP. Image from the Jane Austen Gift Shop.
Initial Seal and Sealing Wax Set. £7.99 GBP. Image from the Jane Austen Gift Shop.
DETAILS:
- JANE AUSTEN GIFT SHOP: GO HERE
- JANE AUSTEN WEBSITE: GO HERE
- PREDICTED SHOPPING TIME: FOR AUSTEN FANS: 30 MINUTES/FOR NON-FANS: 10 MINUTES
- BEST AWESOMELY UNEXPECTED ITEM: VARIOUS CLOTHESPIN DOLL KITS, INCLUDING THIS ONE
- PRICE POINT: REASONABLE
- BOOKWORM HAPPINESS SCORE (OUT OF A POSSIBLE 10): 8 FOR THE STORE/10+ FOR THE WEBSITE
FIRST STOP: EDWARD GOREY HOUSE STORE
Happy Birthday, Rex Stout!
Rex Todhunter Stout was born on 1 December 1886. He gave the world that singular detective, Nero Wolfe (and his unremittingly charming factotum Archie Goodwin!), writing dozens of excellent genre novels and short stories during a four decade period. Stout’s version of New York City is one of the best (fictionalized) settings in all of literature. Here he is, mixing patterns and still looking casually dapper in his eighty-seventh year…
Rex Stout by Jill Krementz, 1973
“To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man’s decisions are based on his rational process. That I don’t believe at all.”-Rex Stout
Goodbye, Oscar Wilde!
Oscar Wilde died on 30 November 1900. He was 46 years old.
Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”-Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”-Oscar Wilde
[A Holiday Shopping Spree for the Bookworm] First Stop: Edward Gorey House Store
I love bookish goodies almost as much as I love actual books, and reading. Being a bookworm is not a hobby: it is an all-enveloping, personality-defining lifestyle. The holiday season is in full-swing, which means that it is time to go shopping-the literary way! Over the next two weeks, I am going to take you on a virtual bookish shopping spree to some of my favourite lit sites! Let’s get started.
EDWARD GOREY HOUSE STORE
There is no better way to show your love for one of America’s most unusual creative talents than by purchasing merchandise directly from the Gorey House in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. The creator of the iconic The Gashlycrumb Tinies lived in the house for twenty-one years; it is now a museum.
The selection of Gorey goodies offered is impressive. Be sure to spend time perusing all of the categories, or you’ll risk missing the perfectly whimsical gift for that someone special.
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:
Gashlycrumb Tinies Lunchbox. $16.99. Image from The Gorey House Store.
Dracula Toy Theater. $27.95. Image from The Gorey House Store.
The Doubtful Guest (with scarf) Mug. $13.50. Image from The Gorey House Store.
DETAILS:
- EDWARD GOREY HOUSE STORE: GO HERE
- THE EDWARD GOREY HOUSE: OFFICIAL WEBSITE
- PREDICTED SHOPPING TIME: 15-30 MINUTES
- BEST AWESOMELY UNEXPECTED ITEM: SOAP
- PRICE POINT: EXTREMELY REASONABLE
- BOOKWORM HAPPINESS SCORE (OUT OF A POSSIBLE 10): 10
So Long, Eugene O’Neill!
Eugene O’Neill died on 27 November 1953. He was sixty-five. Here he is, as a wee laddie…
Eugene O’Neill as a Child
Too adorable!
“Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.”
Reading Suggestions: Bound East for Cardiff; The Long Voyage Home; Beyond the Horizon; Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; Ah, Wilderness!; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; A Moon for the Misbegotten
[My Top Cold Weather Writers] Honorable Mention: Christina Rossetti
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
Portrait of Christina Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866
REASON: When snow started falling today, my mind immediately turned to Christina Rossetti. Her words, no matter how passionate, are of the winter.
“And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.”
If you missed My Top Six Cold Weather Writers, go here.
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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happy Birthday, George Eliot!
George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819.
George Eliot
George Eliot was rebellious in ways that actually meant something. She had guts, too, and a wide talent.
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”-George Eliot
Novels: Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Romola; Felix Holt, the Radical; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda
Writers in Art: Zola Versus Zola
Émile Zola by Édouard Manet, 1868
Émile Zola, 1902
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola
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