Author: Regina Jeffers
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Spot the Mistakes! a Guest Post from Jayne Davis and Gail Eastwood
As I have mentioned previously, one of the Facebook groups I follow is Regency Kisses: Lady Catherine Salon. Back in November, Gail Eastwood, one of the admins on the site, shared a number of short posts and asked us readers to spot the errors. Some mistakes were easy to spot. Some I did not know,…
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Let Me Persuade You, a Guest Post from Susan Kaye
Susan Kaye, a friend of the Always Austen blog, is back today to share a bit on her latest book, Stealing the Baronet’s Daughter. There are days I look at what I’m writing about Anne and Frederick, and I wonder why I never try writing about any of the other Austen couples. Even the secondary…
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The Centrality of Self-Knowledge in Austen, a Guest Post from Pamela Aidan
The importance of self-knowledge or self-discovery in Jane Austen’s novels is not likely to be contested as it is a feature, perhaps THE feature that appears in all of them to one degree or another. My personal favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, has as its hinge the incident of Darcy’s ill-fated proposal at Rosings which…
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The Bluestocking Society, a Guest Post from Pamela Aidan
Today, we bring you the ever-fabulous Pamela Aidan, who is lending a helping hand to Barbara Cornthwaite. What do you know of The Bluestocking Society? Although there is no direct linkage known between Jane Austen and the women of the Bluestocking Society who preceded her by fifty or more years, there can be little doubt…
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Writing Lows and Highs in Austen-Inspired Stories, a Guest Post from Susan Kaye
The blog mistress of Always Austen has asked me to write a post in the stead of Barbara Cornthwaite. Barbara is my editor, and she will be familiar with what I have to write here as she has seen my raw writing firsthand. Poor thing. Jane Austen wrote in an unfinished book, Catherine or the Bower,…
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A Stroll Down Memory Lane, a Guest Post from Laura Hile
Today I have the pleasure to fill in for my friend, Barbara Cornthwaite. Barbara and I go way back, back to a time when online fiction forums—and the Internet—were young. This was before Facebook and Instagram and good gracious, even before Myspace. It was indeed a heady time. Suddenly, thanks to the worldwide web, people…
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Tenant of the Curtsey + an excerpt from “Where There’s a FitzWILLiam Darcy, There’s a Way” + a BIG Announcement
Tenant of the Curtesy or Courtesy tenure is a legal term indicating the life interest which a widower (meaning the wife’s former husband) may claim in the lands of the deceased wife, under certain conditions
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Code Napoleon and How It Might Screw Up that Elopement Scene You Are Writing
Okay, I did something similar on my own blog this month, but those who follow Every Woman Dreams are a nice mix of some of my JAFF fans and a large dose of those who are history “geeks.” I am certain many of you reading this blog post have read an elopement scene in one…
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Pride and Prejudice with “& Juliet” Style
& Juliet is a 2019 coming-of-age jukebox musical. The story focuses on a “what if” scenario [Geez! Are not all Austenesque literature also “What If” scenarios?] where Juliet does not die at the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In it, Juliet learns Romeo has had other relationships (both F & M), so she backs…