Pride and Prejudice was published on this day in 1813:
Pride and Prejudice
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!–When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels [courtesy The Toast]*
Do hurry back and share your favourite(s) in the comments section.
*Eighteenth-Century novels are the best.
Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
Aphra Behn by Mary Beale
“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”-Aphra Behn
Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson Greeting Card by Amanda White. $3.90.
Russell Square Photograph by Journey’s Eye Photography. $28.00.
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson at The Glamourist. $25.29.
Virginia Woolf Print by Lucy Loves This. $25.29.
Anne Brontë, the forgotten sister, died on 28 May 1849. She was 29. Her novels are quite entertaining, so there is really no excuse for the shadowy, reclusive life of her fame.
The Sisters Brontë by their brother Branwell Brontë. Anne is on the left.
QUOTE: “My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”-Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
WORKS: Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A KEEPSAKE:
Anne Brontë Doll Miniature by Uneek Doll Designs. $41.00
*I was too busy yesterday to compose this post. At around 10:00 P.M. I thought of rushing it out, but then decided that publishing it a day late would be all too appropriate.
London’s Dickens Museum reopens after makeover [courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek News]
An interview with E. M. Forster, 1958.
English: George Eliot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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