Happy Birthday Jane Austen!

Happy Birthday to a great lady! Thank you, Jane, for introducing us to the wit of Elizabeth Bennet, the vivid imagination of Catherine Morland, the sense of Elinor Dashwood, and the passion of Marianne. Thank you for giving us Mr. Darcy, Mr. Knightly, and Henry Tilney to swoon over. Thank you for vile rakes like Wickham and Willoughby and the stupid and intolerable John Thorpe and Mr. Collins. Our world has been greatly enriched by our acquaintance with these characters.

In honor of her birthday, Amazon has special free e-book editions of her six main novels today. These editions include the special color illustrations of the Brock brothers which were created to accompany Jane Austen's books in 1898. Click HERE to go directly to the Amazon page.

Amazon is also offering these free e-books today (click on the title for the link)...

Eliza's Daughter

The Pemberley Chronicles

The Other Mr. Darcy

Mr. Darcy's Diary

Lydia Bennet's Story

I have not previewed these books for content, so read at your own risk. I did purposely leave out a few other free e-books because of excessive romance. (Seriously, Jane Austen was no Harlequin author, why make her sequels one!!! Ok, rant over!)

If you don't have an e-reader (I don't), you can download free Kindle reading aps for iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Mac HERE so you can enjoy all these fun books!

Calleigh's Blog Project

Ok, so this time for my blog project, I decided to do a word picture of Catherine Morland.  I hope you like it, and if you can think of anymore words that should be added, just comment and let me know!





~ Calleigh

Skyeler's Northanger Abbey Project

Imagination

The creaking cabinet calls my hand

It begs

It pleads

Ignites imagination

The horror grasps

The haunted grinds

Imprints upon susceptive minds.

With facade of mystery

How can I withstand

When the unidentified

Ignites imagination.

I have become inventor

Of eerie unknown

When candlelight extinguished

Those flames depart

To ignite imagination

To make my life a novel

For of horror’s pretense

My mind is occupied.

My rest deterred by fiction

I brought upon myself

That a washing bill from cabinet’s claws

Ignites imagination.

This is a poem I wrote, describing Catherine's vivid imagination as she found the cabinet in her bedroom at Northanger Abbey.

Skyeler

Narrations of Notability

Below are my favorite quotes from Northanger Abbey. :)

"Catherine wished to congratulate him, but knew not what to say, and her eloquence was only in her eyes. From them however the eight parts of speech shone out most expressively, and James could combine them with ease."

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

Skyeler