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If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to and the Brontes! If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!

https://excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bronte-newsletter-issue-7-podcasts

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The Gainsborough Bath Spa 2025 line-up in celebration of 's 250th birthday!

https://www.travelweekly.com.au/article/the-gainsborough-bath-spa-2025-line-up-in-celebration-of-jane-austens-250th-anniversary/

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Today's comes from by :

“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”

(Response: See, I don't buy this. Mr. Lisa is a reserved person but full of passion underneath. Wasn't Darcy reserved and Elizabeth still loved him?)

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10 Era Romance Books To Cure Your “" Hangover

https://www.brit.co/books-like-bridgerton/

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Today's comes from 's which begins with, "It's only a novel…”

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The Literacy Foundation is asking the public to vote on the short story compeition! There are three finalists. Voting ends at midnight GMT (7 pm EST) in TWO DAYS (june 21)!

You can read online or download the entries. More details can be found 👉🏻 https://janeaustenlf.org/writing-competition-voting-2024.

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Registration for AGM opens TODAY! This year, the theme is “Austen, Annotated: 's literary, political, and culturual origins." The event is held in Cleveland, OH on October 18-20.

https://jasna.org/agms/cleveland2024/welcome.php

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Everyone! The program for has arrived! https://virtualjanecon.com/virtualjanecon-2024/ Events begin Saturday July 13 at 5 a.m. EST (12 a.m. UTC). These ARE on YouTube so you don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn! :)

All events are free!

Topics include: Music in ’s life; Hallmark’s Austen Loveuary; Comparing 2005 to 1995 adaptations; and and the .

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kneeler completed for Winchester Cathedral

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/7-june/news/uk/jane-austen-kneeler-completed-for-winchester-cathedral

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The Literacy Foundation is asking the public to vote on the short story compeition! There are three finalists. Voting ends at midnight GMT (7 pm EST) on June 21.

You can read online or download the entries. More details can be found 👉🏻 https://janeaustenlf.org/writing-competition-voting-2024.

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Britain's best loved real-life filming location? 's Chatsworth House, most ardently

https://www.tatler.com/article/chatsworth-house-home-to-pride-and-prejudice-is-britains-best-filming-location

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Love ? Here are 3 'captivating' modern rom-com retellings for you

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/love-jane-austen-here-are-3-captivating-modern-rom-com-retellings-for-you-1.7228034

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Celebrate Release Day with

https://booktrib.com/2024/06/13/celebrate-bridgerton-release-day-with-jane-austen/

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is a FREE virtual con about all things i. It is happening July 13 - 14 via YouTube. For more information, visit https://virtualjanecon.com/

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The Literacy Foundation is asking the public to vote on the short story compeition! There are three finalists. Voting ends at midnight GMT (7 pm EST) in EIGHT DAYS (June 21)!

You can read online or download the entries. More details can be found 👉🏻 https://janeaustenlf.org/writing-competition-voting-2024.

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is next month! A FREE virtual con about all things is happening July 13 - 14 via YouTube. For more information, visit https://virtualjanecon.com/

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Starting very soon, Lucy's got more of Jane Austen's classic 'Pride and Prejudice'! Make yourself cosy, then come on over to https://www.twitch.tv/Chilliteracy and listen in!

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If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over dozen of them dedicated to and the Brontes! If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list!

https://excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bronte-newsletter-issue-7-podcasts

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Today's comes from . “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

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Why are we so obsessed with era romances?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-regency-era-romances/image-gallery/0ed5acbb63b39ffbb03656428798958e

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Phew , LOTS of virtual events happening this summer! Many of them free!

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“’Pride & Prejudice's Alternate Ending Scandalized UK Audiences”

https://collider.com/pride-and-prejudice-2005-alternate-ending/

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@beexcessivelydiverting @bookstodon What 2005 film? As far as I'm concerned, there is no screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice other than the 1995 BBC miniseries. All others are dead to me. 🙂

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“Columnist Susan Wozniak: Austen adaptation still gets me”
https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Wozniak-54142112

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“An Ode to ”

https://www.hercampus.com/school/mt-holyoke/an-ode-to-jane-austen/

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