Jane Austen Society of North America-- Central New Jersey Chapter

Friday Video! - The Joy of Books

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:12:00 +0000

After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).

NYPL Digital Gallery - Jane Austen Cigarette card

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Image Title: Jane Austen.
Specific Material Type: Photomechanical prints
Standard Reference: Cartophilic reference books, c18-109
Source: [Cigarette cards.] / 50 celebrities of British history.
Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / George Arents Collection
Catalog Call Number: Arents Cigarette Cards
Digital ID: 1204542
Record ID: 480276
Digital Item Published: 7-26-2004; updated 6-21-2011

Pocket Posh® Jane Austen: 100 Puzzles & Quizzes from Andrews McMeel Publishing

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Pocket Posh® Jane Austen: 100 Puzzles & Quizzes from Andrews McMeel Publishing

The Picture of Dorian Grey Poupon - GalleyCat

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000

Last week I read about this Twitter hashtag #bookproductplacement

In the initial tweet, Geller added a British supermarket chain to the famous first line of Daphne du Maurier‘s novel, Rebecca. He wrote: “Last night I dreamt of Morrisons.”

The article I read used The Picture of Dorian Gray and as you can tell from the title of this/and their blog post changed it to The Picture of Dorian Grey Poupon. So I thought, what would the titles of Jane Austen's book change to for product placement? I thought of one for P&P any ideas for her other works or lines from the books?

Sense and Sensibility -
Pride and Prejudice - Tide and Prejudice
Mansfield Park -
Emma -
Northanger Abbey -
Persuasion -

The Picture of Dorian Grey Poupon - GalleyCat

Downton Abbey Reading List

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

This past week there have been a handful of articles with reading lists that tie into Downton Abbey. Here is the collected lists of books/poetry and the links to the articles I pulled the list from.

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by the Countess of Carnarvon
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
Into the Silence by Wade Davis
The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine
The Beauty and the Sorrow, an Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund
Wat the Butler Winked At: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne, Butler by Eric Horne

Downton Abbey Poetry Reading List
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
Poems by Wilfred Owen
Poems by Edward Thomas
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

As an extra bonus, here is the full text of Owen’s most famous poem.

Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Downton Abbey Poetry Reading List - GalleyCat
If You're Mad for 'Downton,' Publishers Have Reading List
Book list released for Downton Abbey fans

Sprinkle Bakes: A Birthday Cake for Jane Austen: Twelfth Night Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Sprinkle Bakes: A Birthday Cake for Jane Austen: Twelfth Night Cake

Change on the blog

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you know about a change I made on the blog. I changed how you comment on the blog posts (not that there are a lot of comments, but just in case you do and notice the change). I recently have been introduced to a platform called Disqus. A few of the blogs I read have started using it and I find it's great for having blog post comment conversations and for keeping track of where I've commented and if there have been replies or new comments.

When commenting you can either create o Disqus account or sign in using Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, OpenID or you as a guest by entering your email address and a name. The email address is if you want to subscribe to the comment thread to be updated to emails (there's a check box for this).

I created a Disqus account and I'm loving it so far. I've commented on blogs and I get email updates when there are new comments added. This is an option you can turn off and on and choose when you get notified.

If you use this service or try it out here, please let me know what you think.

--Amelia

Friday Video!

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Last week I posted the Jane Austen Fine Eyes Quiz video Here is the answers video!

You can find both videos and more over at Old Fashioned Charm's YouTube page

A Poem

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

This has been circulating the web this past week and we thought it would be fun to share it with everyone.

The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
(The poem has been circulating as English Pronunciation but this is the real title of the poem)

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

Jane Austen themed Gifts

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

I just wanted to share with all of you this really great gift my friend got me for Christmas. It's a paper stocking made from pages of Sense and Sensibility.

She got it at Anna's Trunk over on esty.

--Amelia

Friday Video!

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

*post comments/guesses on the YouTube page

Would Lizzie have been a Yuppie?

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:08:00 +0000

I found a copy of The Yuppie Handbook by Marissa Piesman and Marilee Hartles

Inside they list the Yuppie Bestsellers:Books Movies, Records and under Fiction we read this:

5. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (every Yuppie knows that Elizabeth Bennett would have gone to law school had she lived today)

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:59:00 +0000

On Saturday I posted this quote:

Bringing in a New Year is all about second chances. This year, we vow, we will do it right. We have a second chance to take better care of ourselves. We have a second chance to be kinder, wiser, and better human beings.

For the life of me I couldn't figure out where I had found this post at and was getting mad at myself for not being about to find the source. I posted it any way and also commented that I couldn't find where I had found it, well I am sad to admit that on the last day of 2011 the Librarian Force (very similar to the Jedi Force but geared towards Librarian-esque powers) was not strong with me. A friend found the information and only after I saw her reply to me did I realize that I had the source information in my grasp the whole time and just didn't realize it for whatever reason.

So today I'd like to thanks Laurie Viera Rigler, author of Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict for that quote.

New Year's Resolutions

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0000

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason. Pride and Prejudice

If you are ever so forward and clever…you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn. Mansfield Park

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Emma

If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them. The Watsons

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others – of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty and for whom I feel no respect. Lady Susan

To be guided by second-hand conjecture is pitiful. Northanger Abbey

Keep your breath to cool your porridge. Pride and Prejudice

You should never fret about trifles. Northanger Abbey

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. Emma

It is the bounden duty of the capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. Sanditon

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Emma

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Sense and Sensibility

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. Persuasion

compilation unknown

Friday Video

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:21:00 +0000

Uploaded by AnnBranwell on Oct 20, 2011

The 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America took place in Fort Worth, Texas. Watch our Janeites celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of SENSE & SENSIBILITY. Visit the JASNA website at http://www.jasna.org.

There are three more episodes and you can find them here.

Wisconsin Region Wall Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:09:00 +0000

The Wisconsin Region is pleased to offer the Jane Austen Wall calendar with beautiful illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock which are featured on the pages of our web site. To order the calendar, print and complete the order form.

Dickens Down South

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0000

A week ago a friend and JASNA member Jen was feeling burnt out at work. Along with a friend they started to have some fun on Twitter by re-imagining some lines from the works of Charles Dickens as if they had taken place down South. Here is what they came up with, I encourage you to add to their list on Twitter and use the hashtag #dickensdownsouth

"Scrooge was gooder'n girts to his word. He did it all, and infinitely more."

"It is a gooder’n grits thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a gooder’n grits rest that I go to..."

'I am well aware that I am a piddlin’ person,' said Uriah Heep, modestly.

“Shucks!” said Scrooge, “Tarnation!” “Xmas a tarnation, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure?”

Even Tiny Tim beat on the table with the handle of his Arkansas toothpick, and feebly cried Sho ‘Nuff!

"Now, I return to this Yankee. And the communication I hear tell is that, bless his heart, he has great expectations."

"And how did Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Cratchitt... "Gooder'n grits" said Bob, "and better."

"There's more of biscuit gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

"You may be an undigested bit of beignet, a blot of BBQ sauce, a crumb of possum pie, a fragment of underdone root."

Scrooge was "secret and self-contained and solitary as a Gulf Coast oyster."

"Please sir, I want some more grits"

"'It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Redneck Caviar.'"

"It was the best of times, it was the darn tootin' worst of times."

"God bless y'all, everyone."

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:40:00 +0000

Here are some pictures from Tin Roof Productions production of Sense and Sensibility the musical.

Jane Austen Birthday and Book Pollyanna

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0000

On Saturday, December 17th we joined together for our annual celebration of Jane's Birthday along with our Book Pollyanna.

We had a lot of wonderful treats to snack on during our discussion of Sense and Sensibility. I shared a newly favorite line of "I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."

We then added to our list of "Read Jane - Now What?" We really are a great group readers.

Death comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
books by Penelope Lively
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemming
the Pink Carnations Series by Lauren Willig
the Maisie Dobbs Series by Jacqueline Winspear
the Inspector Rutlege Series by Charles Todd
books by Philliapa Gregory
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
the Josie Prescott Series by Jane Cleland

Then we got down to our book exchange!

One Day by David Nicholls
The Watsons and Emma Watson Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Joan Aiken
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth About the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Literary Heroine by Patrice Hannon
Jane Austen's Letters by Deirdre Le Faye
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Love and War by Georgette Heyer
A Jane Austen themed journal
Jane Austen For Dummies by Joan Klingel Ray
Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave
Jane Austen's Little Advice Book by Cathryn Michon and Pamela Norris
Why Do Horses Sleep Standing Up?: 101 of the Most Perplexing Questions Answered About Equine Enigmas, Medical Mysteries, and Befuddling Behaviors (Why Do Series) by Marty Becker D.V.M., Audrey Pavia, Gina Spadafori and Teresa Becker
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany and Amy Hill Hearth
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Becoming Jane: The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

Happy Birthday Jane!

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:28:00 +0000

Just a reminder of the great image that Google displayed last year for Jane's Birthday

Jane Austen Cards Box Set by HayleysPaperLove on Etsy

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:19:00 +0000

Jane Austen's writing has withstood the test of time. What she has written is as true today as when she wrote it. That is why I wanted to create a box set of cards that celebrates some fabulous quotes from Jane Austen.

This box set of cards includes 5 cards featuring Jane Austen quotes:
1) Darcy's proposal from Pride and Prejudice
2) "I always deserve the best treatment..."
3) "If I could but know his heart..."
4) "If I loved you less..."
5) "...I am half agony..."

Each card is blank inside and comes with its own white envelope.

All come enclosed in a clear card box wrapped in green ribbon.

Each card measures:
4.375 x 5.75 inches

You can find this item at her story here

Friday Video!

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:41:00 +0000

Tin Roof Productions presents Sense and Sensibility the musical.

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:33:00 +0000

Penguin's Clothbound Classics -

Pretty Postcards

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:07:00 +0000

You can find this post card and more over at Pretty Girl Postcards on esty.com

Jane Austen murdered!

noreply@blogger.com (Central NJ JASNA) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Lindsay Ashford on BBC World news (Nov. 2011)

Lindsay's new book "The Mysterious Death of Ms. Austen" is available to buy now on Amazon!