A Day of Small Things | Jane Austen July 2023 planning and recommendations @adayofsmallthings | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 minutes ago.
This is my second year joining Jane Austen July. In this video, I’m going to share my planning process and the possible titles for myself. I’ll also recommend some titles for you according to each challenge. I’m adding a theatre focus on top of the challenges as a twist, because of my fascination into everything theatre at the moment.

Here are the challenges and the titles mentioned in the video:
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
The History of England by Jane Austen
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1212/pg1212-images.html#link2H_4_0029

3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
‘A Note on Jane Austen’ by C. S. Lewis
The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
'How Jane Austen Created a Shakespearean World in Pride and Prejudice' by Harold Bloom
lithub.com/how-jane-austen-created-a-shakespearean-world-in-pride-and-prejudice
What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England by Carolly Erickson

4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (published between 1775–1817)
Lovers’ Vow (1798) by Elizabeth Inchbald
gutenberg.org/files/4554/4554-h/4554-h.htm

6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch a modern screen retelling of a Jane Austen book

Thank you to the hosts:
@katiejlumsden
youtu.be/n4ZCPSRPKxE
@BlatantlyBookish
youtu.be/hVNL4xRyqug
@SpinstersLibrary
youtu.be/HxylXbbB8UA

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