Newsletter

No 28

March 2007

A lively bi-annual publication mailed to members in the spring and autumn, detailing recent and forthcoming Society and regional events, together with articles, letters, book reviews and advertisements.

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Please note that two articles were inadvertently omitted from the recent Annual Report for 2006. Please select the following links to display them in full. Our apologies for this oversight.


Charles Austen's Capture of the French Privateer La Jeune Estelle by Sheila Kindred
Sense and Sensibility and The Vyne: two embedded narratives by Anne Hardy

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Issue No 28 of the Newsletter includes the following:

• Review of the recent film Becoming Jane which focussed on her close friendship with Tom Lefroy.

• Diary 2007. Details of events arranged by the Society and its Branches and Groups (together with contact details).

• Brief article on the Society's publisher, Sarsen Press, based in Winchester, and its proprietor, Tony Hill.

• The unveiling of a plaque in Dartford, Kent, to commemorate Jane Austen's visits to the old coaching inn, The Bull and George.

• Latest report by Tom Carpenter on the current proposals to enhance the Jane Austen Museum at Chawton.

• Brief details of the funding appeal by Beckley Church near Oxford, including information on its links with the Austen family.

• Letters to the Editor:
       Comment on an earlier letter (in issue No 27) concerning the origins of the Churchill family
       Query about the nature of an item which appeared on the laundry list discovered by Catherine           Morland in Northanger Abbey
       Comment on a previous letter (in issue No 27) concerning the extent of Captain Wentworth's           wealth
       Response to an earlier letter (in issue No 27) on a comment on Jane Austen by Virginia Woolf
       Comment on points made in a previous letter (in issue No 27) on the social status of various           characters in Pride and Prejudice
       Proposal that Mr Bennet's two eldest daughters were from an earlier marriage
       Comments on certain geographical aspects of Mansfield Park
       Comprehensive study of the social status of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
       Re-appraisal of the character of Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park
  

• Book Reviews:
       The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen by Janet Todd (Cambridge University Press)
       Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition by Gabrielle White (Palgrave Macmillan)
       Jane Austen - A Students' Guide to the later Manuscript Works by Brian Southam           (Concord Books)
       Cassandra's Sister by Veronica Bennett (Walker Books)
       Mr Knightley's Diaries by Amanda Grange (Robert Hale)
       The Beautifull Cassandra and other Early Writings read by Teresa Gallagher (Crimson Cats           Audio Books)
       Admiral of the Blue: The Life and times of Admiral John Child Purvis by Iain Gordon (Pen and           Sword Maritime)
  

• Details of Jane Austen Society Publications, available from Sarsen Press, Winchester

• Competition No. 11, and winning entry for Competition No 10.