Monday's Memories: The Rest of Jane's House

I don't have a video for you this week, but you could listen to my favorite music from Becoming Jane while you look if you like.  

I loved the stairs at Chawton cottage.  In fact, I really loved the entire house.  It was different than anything I would have expected and so very lovely.

Hanging on the wall there are copies of newspaper advertisements 

announcing the release of two of Jane's novels.

Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously,

which is why it just says Lady_______.

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously,

so I'm assuming that's why they contained information about the author.

Novel-writing women were very suspect in those days.

We only had one more room in the house to visit downstairs.  They aren't sure what it was used for when the Austens lived there, but it's a very wonderful book-room today.

old books...my first love

Last year marked the 200th since the release of Jane Austen's first published book, Sense and Sensibility.  They had a first edition in the original board covers.

I'm a fan of well-written Jane Austen spin-offs, but I didn't know there were any written this early.  I wonder if you can find it anywhere or if it's any good?

If you happen to be a fan of Jane Austen spin-offs, this is a good one.  It re-tells Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's perspective in journal form.  Amanda Grange does a good job of it.