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Colonel Brandon in His Own Words Fitzwilliam Darcy in His Own Words
Murder at Northanger Abbey
Prayer & Praise: a Jane Austen Devotional
The Ladies of Rosings Park
Leap of Faith
Leap of Hope
Miss Georgiana Darcy of Pemberley
The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen
The Darcys of Pemberley
For Myself Alone
Return to Longbourn
Tag Archives: Northanger Abbey
Word Search
Here’s a word-search puzzle I designed a few years back for my original website. Not surprisingly, it’s made up of all Jane Austen related words, the clues (with the first letter) for which are below. And if you’re still stumped, you’ll find the answers … Continue reading
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Tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen quotes, Northanger Abbey, puzzle, word search
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Pemberley, the Picturesque
I’m something of an artist, and although writing consumes most of my creative energy, I still pick up a paintbrush from time to time. So, now that it’s time to produce some cover art for The Darcys of Pemberley, I’m going … Continue reading
Segue to the Twentieth Century
I’m half-heartedly watching the Mariners game (not a good night for them), and wondering how to make a graceful segue from Jane Austen, my usual subject matter, to baseball. No problem. And it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature … Continue reading
Watch out for that Intrusive Author
“Author intrusion” is a definite writing “don’t” nowadays. The fiction author is not to call attention to him/herself in any way, thereby interrupting the flow of the story and the reader’s total immersion in it. But in the 18th and 19th … Continue reading
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Celebrating!
She was looked at however, and with some admiration; for, in her own hearing, two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl. Such words had their due effect; she immediately thought the evening pleasanter than she had found it … Continue reading
Make Haste!
John Thorpe was soon with them, and his voice was with them yet sooner, for on the stairs he was calling out to Miss Morland to be quick. “Make haste! Make haste!” as he threw open the door – “Put … Continue reading
Call to Adventure
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against … Continue reading
The Pleasure of a Good Novel
“The person … who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid. I have read Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could … Continue reading
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Tagged Jane Austen, Jane Austen quotes, Northanger Abbey, novels, Shannon Winslow, The Mysteries of Udolpho, writing
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The Pump-room
> Every morning now brought its regular duties – shops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the Pump-room to be attended, where they paraded up and down for an hour, looking … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, England, Jane Austen, my books
Tagged Bath, Catherine Morland, For Myself Alone, Jane Austen, Jane Austen quotes, Northanger Abbey, Shannon Winslow, writing
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