Austenised

Have you ever read Jane Austen in the form of a comic? Well, this was a first one for me, too! My husband attended a Comic Con recently and ...

As we await the publication of Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma, here is a link to a wonderful, insightful article written by him earlier th...

What a coincidence! Soon after I had written about how Alexander McCall Smith was the modern counterpart of Jane Austen , I found out that...

Wow! It’s been a while since I posted here. I thought I should comment on a couple of exciting events that have taken place on the Austen fr...

What do the Georgian female writer Jane Austen and the prolific modern novelist Alexander McCall Smith have in common?   From http://bit.l...

Still being kept super busy with my baby, I will try to post to my blog every now and then. I still actively follow other Jane Austen blogs,...

Happy New Year to my readers! Hope you have had lovely holidays and have been able to relax in the company of our favourite writer… Did yo...

This post discusses some of the various biographies written on Jane Austen. Obviously there are plenty more biographies written on her life,...

I have recently been reading Park Honan’s biography of Jane Austen, “Her Life”. In his work, Park Honan  draws various inferences on where J...

Wow! It has been a long time since I last worked on this blog. I have been totally engaged by the life-changing event of the birth of my ch...

Some people say that Jane Austen’s genius in creating the perfect romance is thanks to her own romantic experiences. That she experienced gr...

5. “The nameless, dateless lover” – Jane Austen’s seaside romance According to family tradition, the most likely person to have touched...