Jane+Austen+Book+Club

=The Jane Austen book club is not continuing in 2011.= Thank you to the students and staff who came along and shared our conversations about Jane, her characters and the society of the time. It was great! = = = = =Jane Austen Book Club​= =The Jane Austen Book Club - for members and interested readers=

We meet on Day 9 at Lunchtime in the Project Room

Convenors - Ms McCurry and Ms Sweeney

Members: Jennifer, Lexie, Natalie, Ruby, Ms Smith, Ms Ryan, Mr Weir, Anu, Judith, Lauren, Stefania, Elena, Courtney, Laura, Hannah, Joanna, Lauren, Emma, Natasha, Bianca, Floranne, and Lauren and still looking for more!

Take the Austen quiz - which heroine are you?

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to celebrate the Jane Austen Book club we have purchased lovely new editions of all the novels as well as...

=Celebrity Jane= JANE’S FAME: How Jane Austen Conquered the World. //By Claire Harman. Henry Holt. 277 pp. $26// A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED: Thirty-Three Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen.

//Edited by Susannah Carson. Random House. 295 pp. $25// Not long after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, at age 41, her brother Henry wrote a “Biographical Notice” to coincide with the posthumous publication of //Persuasion// and //Northanger Abbey.// “Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer,” he assured his sister’s readers. “A life of usefulness, literature, and religion was not by any means a life of event.” Read more of this review here

=A Truth Universally Acknowledged 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen= =The lost memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James= Prada and Prejudice by Mandy HubbardThe Darcys give a ball by Elizabeth Newark

**Murder at Mansfield Park**
by Lynn Shepherd - mystery whodunnit set in Mansfield Park. But poor Fanny, she is not quite the heroine that Jane Austen made her!