Jane Austen July Announcement | 2024

#JaneAustenJuly
In which we announce Jane Austen July . . .

Goodreads Group:   / jane-austen-july-2020  

Cohosts: ‪@katiejlumsden‬ and ‪@SpinstersLibrary‬

THE CHALLENGES

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (ie, published between 1775–1817)
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation/retelling of a Jane Austen book

READALONG SCHEDULES

Sense and Sensibility - (3 chapters a day from July 1st-14, read 4 chapters a day on the 15th and 16th):
July 1st: chapters 1, 2, 3
2nd: 4, 5, 6
3rd: 7, 8, 9
4th: 10, 11, 12
5th: 13, 14, 15
6th: 16, 17, 18
7th: 19, 20, 21
8th: 22, 23, 24
9th: 25, 26, 27
10th: 28, 29, 30,
11th: 31, 32, 33
12th: 34, 35, 36
13th: 37, 38, 39
14th: 40, 41, 42
15th: 43, 44, 45, 46
16th: 47, 48, 49, 50

Sanditon: 12 chapters, 2 chapters a day
July 17th: 1 & 2
18th: 3 & 4
19th: 5 & 6
20th: 7 & 8
21st: 9 & 10
22nd: 11 & 12

The Watsons: July 23rd - 31st


BOOKS MENTIONED (And some that should have been)

JANE AUSTEN WORKS (challenges 1 & 2)
-Pride and Prejudice
-Emma
-Persuasion
-Mansfield Park
-Sense and Sensibility
-Northanger Abbey
-The Watsons
-Sanditon
-Lady Susan
-Juvenilia
-Jane Austen's Letters

NONFICTION BOOKS (Challenge 3)
-What Matters in Jane Austen Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
-Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
-The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
-Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century by Mallory James
-An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
-Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins
-Jane Austen Embroidery by Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin
-Tea with Jane Austen by Pen Vogler

More non-fiction recommendations:    • Jane Austen July Non-Fiction Book Haul  

RETELLINGS AND HISTORICAL FICTION (Challenge 4)
-The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - see my review video here:    • All About The Other Bennet Sister  
-Miss Austen by Gill Hornby - see my review video here:    • Miss Austen A Love Letter to Jane's L...  
-Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby - see my review video here:    • All About Godmersham Park  
-Longbourn by Jo Baker
-Pride by Ibi Zoboi
-The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn
-Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
-The Heiress by Molly Greeley
-Reputation by Lex Croucher
-Infamous by Lex Croucher
-The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
-The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray
-The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray
-The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton


CONTEMPORARIES OF JANE AUSTEN (Challenge 5)
-What Jane Austen Read: https://janeausteninvermont.blog/book...
-Romantic Poets: Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats
-Cowper
-Robert Southey
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Frances Burney (Evelina, Camilla... )
-Maria Edgeworth (Belinda, Castle Rackrent, The Absentee...)
-Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, The Bride of Lammermoor, Marmion...)
-The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
-Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (Marriage)
-Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
-The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan


AUSTEN RELATED MOVIES, TV SERIES, WEBSERIES (Challenge 6 & 7)
-BBC Pride and Prejudice (1995)
-Pride and Prejudice (2005)
-Northanger Abbey (2007)
-Sense & Sensibility (1995)
-BBC Sense & Sensibility (2008)
-Emma (2009)
-Emma (2020)
-Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
-Emma (1996)
-Love and Friendship
-Mansfield Park (1999)
-Mansfield Park (2007)
-Austenland
-Fire Island
-Bride and Prejudice (2004)
-Clueless (1995)
-Sanditon (2019)
-Lost in Austen
-The Jane Austen Bookclub
-The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: https://tinyurl.com/y72qe9be
-Emma Approved: https://tinyurl.com/y7762qcb
-From Mansfield With Love: https://tinyurl.com/y7ne8fnp
-Northbound: https://tinyurl.com/y7fnhv9q
-Cate Moreland Chronicles:    • The Cate Morland Chronicles | Officia...   .,m
-Eleanor and Marianne take Barton: https://tinyurl.com/46ss4c9m
-Rational Creatures: https://tinyurl.com/2nj7z23y


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