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The Publishing Journey of Jane Austen
Today is Jane Austen’s 249th birthday, which means we are now officially in her 250th year: I am so excited for all the events and publications (I already have my tickets to tour 8 College St in Winchester), as well as having a few of my own up my sleeve, and so I wanted to read more
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“Widow Clicquot” Review for BSECS Criticks
You might remember that earlier this year, I shared this post about the fascinating life of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the Widow Clicquot who revolutionised the Clicquot champagne house to be the Veuve Clicquot it is world-renowned as today. Well, I am very happy to share a review I wrote of that film for BSECS Criticks read more
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New Podcast | Past Matters, “The Queen of the Bluestockings”
Hello! I recently had a wonderful chat with the lovely Ploy Radford of the Past Matters Podcast about one of my favourite eighteenth century women, Elizabeth Montagu. Montagu was the so-called Queen of the Bluestocking Circle, a group of intellectuals – both men and women! – who often met in her London home. You can read more
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“the cradle of her genius”: Jane Austen and Steventon
It’s long been on my list to take a trip to the small village of Steventon, Hampshire. Steventon is small, but incredibly auspicious, as it is the birthplace of Jane Austen. Not only that, but it is where she largely spent the first twenty-five years of her life, leading her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, to read more
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Mini-Post | Chavenage House on screen
Rivals – a period drama that takes us to the cutthroat world of 1980s television, society and politics, as based on Jilly Cooper’s 1988 novel – has a great cast (and great soundtrack) but has also done some genius location casting, too. Enter Aidan Turner as Declan O’Hara, journalist and presenter of a brand new read more
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A Classical Landscape at Stourhead
Visiting the gardens at the sprawling estate of Stourhead, Wiltshire, is like walking into a Claude Lorrain painting, or some kind of fantastical neoclassical, Grand Tour dream. In fact, Henry Hoare I, who first acquired the Stourhead estate for his family in 1717 (then known as Stourton Manor) owned a Lorrain painting, Aeneas at Delos. read more
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Jane Austen in Bath
Humphry Repton, North Parade, Bath, 1784, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1986.29.460. Bath, a Georgian city that was descended upon during the eighteenth century for its fashionable surroundings, for its healing waters and its vibrant social scene, had many famous residents during its historical heyday. However, as the eighteenth century became the read more
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England calling
This is a bit of a more personal post, but I wanted to share the news that after almost five years (!!!) living in the US, we’ve moved back to the UK and set up home in the southwest, near Bath. (There will be plenty of Bath content incoming!) We always knew we wanted to read more
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Visiting Prior Park Landscape Garden, Bath
Print made by unknown artist, A Perspective View of Prior Park, the Seat of Ralph Allen Esq. near Bath, undated, Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection, B1998.14.180. Welcome to Prior Park, a beautiful garden overlooking the Georgian city of Bath that is home to this stunning Palladian bridge: one of only read more
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Unique pets in the Eighteenth-Century
I recently stumbled across this beautiful portrait in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Once I got past the beautiful fabrics and luxurious pearls (they always pull me in) – there was something else that struck me… The squirrel. I wondered if it was a symbol of something, but it turns out that actually, it wasn’t. read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 