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Mary, Anning’s Daughter
Mary Anning was a famous fossil hunter who lived in Lyme Regis, England – a part of the country that is today known as the Jurassic Coast. Her story has recently been fictionalized by Tracy Chevalier...
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Eliza o’Neil
As a sort of tribute to Jane Travers of the Jane Obsessed With Jane Blog, whose homeland is Ireland, I thought I would continue to post on a Jane Austen/ Irish theme this week. As we already are...
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Sir David Attenborough and Tracy Chevalier to give talk at Lyme Regis
The Phillpot Museum of Lyme Regis in Dorset is to hold a special Mary Anning Weekend on the 23 and 24th October this year. Mary Anning was, of course, the daughter of Mr Anning with whom Jane Austen...
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Book Review- The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin...
A confession: I have had this book on my To Be Reviewed Pile for far longer than I ought to have done. For months and months in fact(as you can tell by the rather battered front cover which I...
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Jane Austen and Winchester College-a place of “future Heroes, Legislators,...
(The College as seen from the Water Meadows, from Ackerman’s History of Winchester College 1815) Jane Austen’s association with Winchester College, one of the oldest educational institutions in...
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A Jane Austen Gazetteer Update
Today I’ve added some pages to the sister site to AustenOnly, A Jane Austen Gazetteer. Do click on the links below to explore them…. Goodnestone, Kent Rowling, Kent Winchester College, Hampshire and...
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Another day…Another Attic Sale
Ashdown House is an exquisite 17th century house, situate in Berkshire, not far from the border of Berkshire with Oxfordshire. The house was designed for William, 1st Earl of Craven, most possibly by...
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The Search for the Mamalouc Cap: Balls and Mysterious Caps at Hackwood Park
Occasionally , on reading Jane Austen’s novels or letters, a reference jumps out at you …and you are puzzled. You simply have no idea what she is referring to… It niggles and niggles away …You have...
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A Final Peek at the Wedding Dress…
No, not the Duchess of Cambridge’s beautiful dress, but Princess Charlotte’s ;) The Historical Royal Palaces website has a wonderful blog and You Tube channel. This video, produced in the run-up to...
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Jane Austen’s Precious Documents to be Digitised and Cared for By Hampshire...
My goodness, it’s a very busy week Austen news-wise! Here is a link to another BBC Hampshire News Report that you will all ( fingers crossed!) be able to see. It concerns the recent move of the...
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