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Tag: Jane Austen

10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition!

05/03/2020 nsford 29 Comments

My previous post on writers I’d love to have coffee with was very popular. My blogger friend Ryan stole my…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, classics, fiction, George Orwell, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Stella Gibbons, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, writers

Authors I want to re-read – and some I don’t

15/01/2020 nsford 12 Comments

Our reading tastes tend to change over time. We return to some authors again and again, authors we never get…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: Ann M Martin, books, fiction, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Joanne Harris, R L Stine, reading, Stella Gibbons, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K LeGuin, Virginia Woolf

Review of ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen

13/12/2019 nsford 10 Comments

I was hoping to like and understand Persuasion better than I did thirteen years ago. Unlike my re-reading of Sense…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

Character of the month: Mr Darcy

13/07/2019 nsford 11 Comments

Ah, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy. So proud, so prejudiced. Also, he’s attractively rich. Portrayed on screen by a succession of handsome…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, fiction, Jane Austen, reading

Film of the book: ‘Emma’ (1996)

09/06/2019 nsford 13 Comments

Jane Austen’s novel of 1815 is given the nineties rom-com treatment in this charming film, which was released the year…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, films, Jane Austen, reviews

My mum’s favourite books

31/03/2019 nsford 25 Comments

As it’s Mother’s Day and my mum likes books as much as I do… Here are some of her favourites!…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charles Dickens, Daphne du Maurier, E Nesbit, George Orwell, Jane Austen, L M Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, reading, Sophie Kinsella

Review of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ by Jane Austen

15/03/2019 nsford 11 Comments

I’ve struggled with Jane Austen’s books sometimes. The meanings can be difficult to understand, the situations can be hard to…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

Review of ‘Jane Austen at Home: A Biography’ by Lucy Worsley

03/01/2019 nsford 14 Comments

This is a fantastic book about one of the world’s best loved authors – Jane Austen! In the company of…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: biographies, books, Jane Austen, Lucy Worsley, non-fiction, reviews

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