Tag Archives: marriage

The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After: A Review

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: April 11, 2012
The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After

Is happiness in marriage entirely a matter of chance? Elizabeth Kantor takes on the question…

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Free Iphone App

Posted by David | Published: February 7, 2012
Jane Austen App

The Jane Austen Centre in Bath has been busy working on an Iphone app which will deliver a witty or meaningful quote from Jane Austen’s novels or letters to your phone every day.

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Account of Joseph Paisley: ‘The Celebrated Gretna-Green Parson’

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: July 17, 2011
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Translate  “MY DEAR HARRIET, You will laugh when you know where I am gone, and I cannot help laughing myself at your surprise to-morrow morning, as soon as I am missed. I am going to Gretna Green, and if you cannot guess with who, I shall think you a simpleton, for there is but one [...]

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See they come, post haste from Thanet

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

A poem celebrating the marriage of Jane’s Uncle Francis

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The Marriage of Darcy and Elizabeth

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

Can the reader admit reservations?

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The Regency Debutante

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

A Young Girl out for her first Season…

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The Legend of the Mistletoe

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 20, 2011

From Parasitic Plant to Pucker Procurer

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An Attempt at Rout Cakes

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: June 17, 2011

A recipe to make Augusta Proud

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A Time for War

Posted by Laura Boyle | Published: January 2, 2002
Wellington: A personal History

The Duke of Wellington, plus The Secret Service: British Agents in France 1792-1815

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