Chair Reading Jane Austen

I just loved this image by Marc Johns, which you can purchase at this site.



Image @Marc Johns
Find other prints of objects reading books on this page. Fabulous stuff.

Book Handbags, Jane Austen Style

This Etsy shop, spoonfullofchocolate, will make custom book bags.


You can order this Pride and Prejudice bag, for instance.


This is how it looks on the inside.

This Librarian Has Yet to Read a Jane Austen Novel

Kelly at Stacked makes a confession: She has yet to finish a Jane Austen novel. Unbelievable as this may seem, this librarian has only completed 40 pages of Sense and Sensibility. That's it!


Eye am not amused. Image @Jane Austen Today
She writes:Confession: I have not read any Jane Austen. Actually, I take that back. I've been sitting about 40 pages in Sense and Sensibility for over a year now

Jane Austen: Genius

Wolfgang Mozart, Marie Curie, Steve Jobs, Tiger Woods, Jane Austen, Isaac Newton. 
Are geniuses born not made? Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman and Dr. Zach Hambrick debate this issue. I find it interesting that Jane Austen's image is included among this group. She certainly belongs there, but it is visual proof of how popular she is in today's age. Would her image have been included before the 1990's,

Reading Jane Austen

Cool image from *Nachan on Deviant art.

The Unseen Portrait of Jane Austen

Inquiring Reader, Frequent contributor Raquel Sallaberry sent a YouTube video of Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait. Sadly, the link was taken off the site. The clip below shows a fascinating discussion of whether the image of the woman identified as Jane Austin is really of her. I wrote a brief post about this portrait before the holidays. The comments that sit below it are more interesting than