It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that all good things must come to an end. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
Austen in August may be over, but I’m not ready to say goodbye just yet. So let’s take a look back at last month’s event.
In addition to the following Austen posts, I managed to read two Austen related novels and one biography, and re-watch the 2009 BBC Emma miniseries.
My Austen in August Guest Post: 10 Austenesque Writers
Book Reviews:
- The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
- The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay
- Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley (review to come)
Link Roundups:
- Sunday Salon Jane Austen Edition
- Beautiful Austen Editions
- Austen on Etsy
- Austen Items From Around the Internet
Bookish Memes:
- 6 Degrees of Separation- Pride and Prejudice
- Top Ten Tuesday- Books About Jane Austen (I actually posted this in July, but thought it was worth sharing here)
Misc.:
- Jane Austen’s Portable Writing Desk
- Bookish Buzz: Bicentennial of Jane Austen’s Death (also posted in July, but also relevant here)
- Austen in August Intro Post
Posts I Enjoyed From Fellow #AusteninAugustRBR Participants:
- Top Ten Things We Get Wrong About Jane Austen at Girl with her Head in a Book
- BookerTalk’s The Many Sides of Jane Austen
- The Watsons by Jane Austen from Brona’s Books
- Review of Longbourn by Jo Baker at My Head is Full of Books
- The Mystery of Emma Guest Post by WildmooBook
A huge thank you to Adam from Roof Beam Reader for hosting this event! Till next year!
How was your Austen in August?
Dwell in Possibility 
I didnt accomplish half as much as I had hoped – I rather think I took on too many things in August. Thanks for the link to my post!
How was the Lucy Worsley? I can’t stand the woman. I have to switch off the tv every time she appears because she is such an irritating presenter.
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I had hoped to read and watch more for Austen in August too. The month seemed to go by extra quickly.
You’re welcome-I enjoyed reading it!
I really enjoyed Jane Austen at Home, although a lot of the info wasn’t new for me. That said, I adore Lucy Worsley and could definitely hear her voice coming through in her writing. So you may want to steer clear!
Have you read The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne? Both biographies explore the objects and details of her life in a highly readable way.
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Interesting you mention the Byrne – the allegation is that Worsley ‘borrowed’ heavily from Byrne
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I’ve read a bit about this. I think it’s probably more of a case of there not being too many directions to go in when writing about Austen’s life, and shared primary sources. But it has been a few years since I read The Real Jane Austen. Worsley does praise Byrne in her book, so perhaps she was more influenced by Byrne’s work than even she realized. It’s definitely an interesting debate/conversation to have in regards to Austen scholarship!
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I think the problem went a bit deeper – one newspaper did a side by side comparison of the books to show how close the terminology was in some sentences.
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Ah, I didn’t realize that-that’s definitely disappointing. I’ll have to look up those comparisons
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I didn’t get nearly as much Austen or Austen-related reading in as I’d planned. Great roundup post and thanks for including my guest post.
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You’re very welcome! I was hoping to get more reading in too. I’d like to try and reread an Austen novel before the year is over, but there’s a lot already on my TBR list.
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