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A Cameo Appearance by Jane Austen
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The Choker Necklace
Accenting royal necklines for centuries…
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Create A Regency Sachet
Sweetly sleep ensconced by the scents of the Regency
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The Rice Portrait
In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger. Elizabeth walked on in quest of the only face whose features would be known to her. -Pride and Prejudice For years there has been (some say, unnecessary) controversy over a charming portrait of an unnamed [...]
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Fanny Austen Knight (Knatchbull)
You are inimitable, irresistible. You are the delight of my life. Such letters, such entertaining letters, as you have lately sent! such a description of your queer little heart! such a lovely display of what imagination does. You are worth your weight in gold, or even in the new silver coinage. Jane Austen to Fanny [...]
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Sir Walter Scott: Author & Critic
Also read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen’s very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big Bow-wow strain I can do [...]
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A Jane Austen Christmas Ornament
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The ‘Conversation Piece’
Whilst conducting research into the ‘Rice’ portrait, Mr. Robin Roberts discovered a very interesting picture, which seems to have gone unnoticed in a Christie’s catalogue. The sale of the property of Mrs. Robert Tritton took place at Godmersham Park, Kent, between Monday, June 6th and Thursday, June 9th, 1983. Elsie Tritton and her husband had [...]
Boiled Pudding: The Vicar’s Treat
A recipe in rhyme by Mrs. Cassandra Austen.
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