tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post8253086014858835955..comments2023-12-19T13:11:31.497-06:00Comments on TBR 313: A Janeite in 1905Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17782561487396697870noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-9787151707384969682014-01-15T06:27:29.227-06:002014-01-15T06:27:29.227-06:00Anbolyn, I do hope you get back to Emma some day, ...Anbolyn, I do hope you get back to Emma some day, just because it's such fun! I have a few more books about Austen on the TBR stacks (and will probably discover more to add), but it's been too long since I've read some of the books themselves. 2014 is the bicentennial of Mansfield Park, I've just learned.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782561487396697870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-49937045784016129642014-01-14T21:09:16.265-06:002014-01-14T21:09:16.265-06:00I love to read your Jane Austen posts as I am not ...I love to read your Jane Austen posts as I am not a Janeite or an Austenite myself. They always teach me something about the author and her books and give me hope that someday I will want to finish Emma and Mansfield Park and re-read the others. It sounds like she has always been a subject of speculation and interest.Anbolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10080054175904900094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-54871882998601256712014-01-14T18:05:59.932-06:002014-01-14T18:05:59.932-06:00vicki, the title page of Bachelor Girl in Burma ha...vicki, the title page of Bachelor Girl in Burma has "by the author of Bachelor Girl in London" - which sent me rushing off as well, but I haven't found an e-version so far. I'll have to try interlibrary loan.<br /><br />Alex, Mitton didn't apparently know about the Biggs-Wither proposal, but she did know about the mysterious man who met JA on holiday but died shortly afterwards. She was very interested in JA's marriage prospects!<br /><br />Audrey, I do love Harman's book! In fact, I was just checking it last night, to see if she mentions Mitton - which she doesn't though she does include Constance Hill.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782561487396697870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-75702516855703878622014-01-14T12:49:44.931-06:002014-01-14T12:49:44.931-06:00Lisa, have you read Jane's Fame by Claire Harm...Lisa, have you read Jane's Fame by Claire Harman? I think you'd really like it... I've been listening to it again as an audiobook. She's writing about the Austen-Leigh memoir now so I'm sure she'll talk about this book soon.Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14912114716426828436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-75403620845560040422014-01-14T08:41:49.659-06:002014-01-14T08:41:49.659-06:00Funny that the author ended up being lured by the ...Funny that the author ended up being lured by the remote possibility of a romance in Austen's life. I've seen it often, extrapolations from the tinniest of details that could easily have been nothing. But it's too tempting to resit!Alex (The Sleepless Reader)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03083761152675156469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1203893324932668537.post-42428959441109941152014-01-14T00:35:02.116-06:002014-01-14T00:35:02.116-06:00You do find wonderful things, Lisa: A Bachelor Gir...You do find wonderful things, Lisa: A Bachelor Girl in Burma! *rushes off to find* <br />I like your point about the forms of access Mitton would have had to Austen's works; and, as that bit about the skirts illustrates, one of the joys (and terrors, I guess) of biography is how much it actually reveals about the biographer.skiourophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200877834536477400noreply@blogger.com