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In which I'm back to announce another Jane Austen July! #janeaustenjuly ...
My co-hosts are @katiejlumsden and @SpinstersLibrary
Katie's Video: tinyurl.com/bdu9pdf3
Claudia's Video: tinyurl.com/287hnvc6
Discord server: discord.gg/egJDtYkTY2
Goodreads group: tinyurl.com/y7t4n8cd
*The Challenges*
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (i.e., published between 1775–1817)
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch something related to Austen that is not a direct adaptation.
*Readalong/Watchalong Schedule*
Mansfield Park: Read 2 chapters a day and finish on July 24th (the rest of the month is for catching up if you fall behind)
Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen, Behind Closed Doors documentary: watch at some point in July and discuss on Goodreads and/or Discord. Look out for a further announcement about possible liveshow and/or reading sprints with the hosts. tinyurl.com/36peryz9
*Books Mentioned (And others)*
-Pride and Prejudice
-Emma
-Persuasion
-Mansfield Park
-Sense and Sensibility
-Northanger Abbey
-The Watsons
-Sanditon
-Lady Susan
-Juvenilia
-Jane Austen's Letters
-What Matters in Jane Austen Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
-Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
-The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
-Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century by Mallory James
-An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
-Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins
-Jane Austen Embroidery by Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin
-Tea with Jane Austen by Pen Vogler
-Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune and Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
-Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser
-The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
-Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
-The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/yrvzefnh
-Miss Austen by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/3st8hc2x
-Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/mrxs5t7a
-The Elopement by Gill Hornby
-Longbourn by Jo Baker
-Pride by Ibi Zoboi
-Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
-Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
-Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
-Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen Mystery Series
-Jessica Bull's Miss Austen Investigates
-The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
-Claudia Gray's Austen mystery series; The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray (release date June 16th)
-The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen, The Unexpected Past of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton
-Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson
-The Beresfords by Christina Dudley
-This Motherless Land by Nikki May
-Goodreads List: tinyurl.com/yj7ew96h
-What Jane Austen Read: tinyurl.com/347v8kku
--Works referenced in Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney: tinyurl.com/mpy2u8mp
-Romantic Poets: Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats
-Cowper
-Robert Southey
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Frances Burney (Evelina, Camilla... )
-Maria Edgeworth (Belinda, Castle Rackrent, The Absentee...)
-Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, The Bride of Lammermoor, Marmion...)
-The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
-Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (Marriage)
-Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
-The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- The School for Scandal and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-Charlotte Smith
-Hannah More
-Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
-Miss Austen
-The Other Bennet Sister
-Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
-Pride and Prejudice (1995 and 2005)
-Northanger Abbey (2007)
-Sense & Sensibility ( 1995 and 2008)
-Emma (2009 and 2020)
-Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
-Emma (1996)
-Love and Friendship (2016)
-Mansfield Park (1999 and 2007)
-Austenland
-Fire Island
-Bride and Prejudice (2004)
-Clueless (1995)
-Sanditon (2019)
-The Jane Austen Bookclub
-The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: tinyurl.com/y72qe9be
-Emma Approved: tinyurl.com/y7762qcb
-From Mansfield With Love: tinyurl.com/y7ne8fnp
-Northbound: tinyurl.com/y7fnhv9q
-Cate Moreland Chronicles: tinyurl.com/24p3frju
-Eleanor and Marianne take Barton: tinyurl.com/46ss4c9m
-Rational Creatures: tinyurl.com/2nj7z23y
music by [audionautix.com](http://audionautix.com/)
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Let's be friends!
instagram.com/misa1404
goodreads.com/blatantlybookish
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/blatantlybookish
In which I'm back to announce another Jane Austen July! #janeaustenjuly ...
My co-hosts are @katiejlumsden and @SpinstersLibrary
Katie's Video: tinyurl.com/bdu9pdf3
Claudia's Video: tinyurl.com/287hnvc6
Discord server: discord.gg/egJDtYkTY2
Goodreads group: tinyurl.com/y7t4n8cd
*The Challenges*
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (i.e., published between 1775–1817)
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch something related to Austen that is not a direct adaptation.
*Readalong/Watchalong Schedule*
Mansfield Park: Read 2 chapters a day and finish on July 24th (the rest of the month is for catching up if you fall behind)
Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen, Behind Closed Doors documentary: watch at some point in July and discuss on Goodreads and/or Discord. Look out for a further announcement about possible liveshow and/or reading sprints with the hosts. tinyurl.com/36peryz9
*Books Mentioned (And others)*
-Pride and Prejudice
-Emma
-Persuasion
-Mansfield Park
-Sense and Sensibility
-Northanger Abbey
-The Watsons
-Sanditon
-Lady Susan
-Juvenilia
-Jane Austen's Letters
-What Matters in Jane Austen Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
-Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
-The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
-Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century by Mallory James
-An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
-Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins
-Jane Austen Embroidery by Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin
-Tea with Jane Austen by Pen Vogler
-Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune and Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
-Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser
-The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
-Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
-The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/yrvzefnh
-Miss Austen by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/3st8hc2x
-Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: tinyurl.com/mrxs5t7a
-The Elopement by Gill Hornby
-Longbourn by Jo Baker
-Pride by Ibi Zoboi
-Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
-Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
-Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal
-Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen Mystery Series
-Jessica Bull's Miss Austen Investigates
-The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
-Claudia Gray's Austen mystery series; The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray (release date June 16th)
-The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen, The Unexpected Past of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton
-Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson
-The Beresfords by Christina Dudley
-This Motherless Land by Nikki May
-Goodreads List: tinyurl.com/yj7ew96h
-What Jane Austen Read: tinyurl.com/347v8kku
--Works referenced in Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney: tinyurl.com/mpy2u8mp
-Romantic Poets: Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats
-Cowper
-Robert Southey
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Frances Burney (Evelina, Camilla... )
-Maria Edgeworth (Belinda, Castle Rackrent, The Absentee...)
-Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, The Bride of Lammermoor, Marmion...)
-The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
-Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (Marriage)
-Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
-The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- The School for Scandal and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-Charlotte Smith
-Hannah More
-Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
-Miss Austen
-The Other Bennet Sister
-Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
-Pride and Prejudice (1995 and 2005)
-Northanger Abbey (2007)
-Sense & Sensibility ( 1995 and 2008)
-Emma (2009 and 2020)
-Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
-Emma (1996)
-Love and Friendship (2016)
-Mansfield Park (1999 and 2007)
-Austenland
-Fire Island
-Bride and Prejudice (2004)
-Clueless (1995)
-Sanditon (2019)
-The Jane Austen Bookclub
-The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: tinyurl.com/y72qe9be
-Emma Approved: tinyurl.com/y7762qcb
-From Mansfield With Love: tinyurl.com/y7ne8fnp
-Northbound: tinyurl.com/y7fnhv9q
-Cate Moreland Chronicles: tinyurl.com/24p3frju
-Eleanor and Marianne take Barton: tinyurl.com/46ss4c9m
-Rational Creatures: tinyurl.com/2nj7z23y
music by [audionautix.com](http://audionautix.com/)
✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧
Let's be friends!
instagram.com/misa1404
goodreads.com/blatantlybookish
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/blatantlybookish
