Virtual JaneCon is back!

Jane Austen died on this day in 1817. In her too short 41 years on this planet, she wrote six of the greatest novels in the English language, laid the groundwork for the modern romance, and gifted us with some of the best quotes ever. Pour one out for Jane today.

RIP Miss Bates. You would have love the Astronomer CEO Coldplay scandal.

shutupandtakemymoney.gif

and Miss Bates was correct far more frequently

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” Okay, and? No one asked Miss Bates anything, and she still told everyone everything.

Just jumping on to say hi. I’m recovering from surgery (it went well) so I won’t be active on social media for a couple months. I am receiving excellent care from Mr. Perry, and I will be recovering by the seaside with a bowl of gruel.

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary in Bath! 🗓️ When: April 7-12 or Oct 13-18 📍 Where: Bath, UK ☕️ What: A bespoke Austen experience to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary! 🛜 How: Visit StrictlyJaneAusten.com for more info. Use code "Mrs Jennings" when booking!

"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." - Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Jessica Bull's "Miss Austen Investigates: A Fortune Most Fatal" is full of clever quips, an authentic Regency setting, and complex characters. Mystery readers and Austen fans alike will love this cozy thriller. (Is that a genre? It should be.) Full review: open.substack.com/pub/janeaust...

Friend: I just read this really fun second-chance romance. Me: Persuasion did it better. Friend: It was really cute though. Me: Persuasion did it better. Friend: You don't even know what the book is about... Me: Persuasion. Did. It. Better. Friend: *deletes my contact info*

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary in Bath! 🗓️ When: April 7-12 or Oct 13-18 📍 Where: Bath, UK ☕️ What: A bespoke Austen experience to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th Anniversary! 🛜 How: Visit StrictlyJaneAusten.com for more info. Use code "Mrs Jennings" when booking!

roses are red me to the DOGE guys:

The first set of #RomComBracket polls are up #Romancelandia

Happy Valentine's Day!

There’s still time to join the Clarissa-in-real-time Substack! Introductions today. Lurkers welcome. #clarissa2025 open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

“It is with great regret that I obey your commands in returning the letters with which I have been honoured from you, and the lock of hair, which you so obligingly bestowed on me.”

Elon: Catch me, Captain Wentworth! Wentworth: JUMP!

Mr. Elton: professes his love to Emma Emma:

If you start Pride and Prejudice 2005 at 11:33, Mr Collins will compliment the potatoes at midnight.

Visit Jane Austen’s home city of Bath for her 250th Anniversary! Book now through strictlyjaneausten.com and use the code ‘Mrs Jennings’ to let them know I sent you! Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! #JaneAusten

Two tickets to Nosferatu, please.

Happy 207th anniversary to Northanger Abbey! Celebrate by solving a murder that never happened.

Persuasion was published on this day in 1817. Making it 207 years of every other love letter not being good enough.

Celebrating Jane Austen’s birthday with these two

it's Jane Austen's 249th birthday and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, developing a passion for dead leaves, inadvertently falling in love with the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

If you haven't heard, the nominations for the 2025 #RomComBracket are open. Due to everyone running off to everywhere, I've bumped up the timeline for everything. You have until December 30th to make your nominations!

Happy 249th birthday to Jane Austen!

Happy 249th birthday to the queen of English literature! We love you, Jane!

Visit Jane Austen’s home city of Bath for her 250th Anniversary! Book now through strictlyjaneausten.com and use the code ‘Mrs Jennings’ to let them know I sent you! Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! #JaneAusten

Exactly

Jane Austen’s Spotify Wrapped 2024 just dropped! (Part 1)

Jane Austen’s Spotify Wrapped 2024 just dropped! (Part 1)

Attention! Two of my favorite Austen adaptations, Sense and Sensibility (2008, moody, seaside vibes, Dan Stevens) and Persuasion (1995, searing, intense, perfect) are on Tubi!

Emma Woodhouse:

Hey, guys. I don’t usually ask my followers for help, but my friend is 27 years old with no money and no prospects. She’s already a burden to her parents, and she’s frightened. So any little bit that you can spare would be appreciated. Offers of marriage accepted in lieu of cash.

Re last RT: I am hoping Austen fandom on BlueSky can be better because we don’t give Lady Karens and Nigels attention or decision influencing power. This does mean reducing Adaptation Wars style discourse.

The dog costumer on Wishbone deserved endless awards. The tiny little perfect outfits in every episode 😭

Gentle reminder that Wishbone was also the cutest actor ever to play Raoul in Phantom of the Opera.

Wishbone Darcy is the best Darcy! 🥰

I often arrogantly think that I “get it” more than anybody else but that is a function of how Austen gets *me* better than anybody else

Just a reminder that Wishbone Darcy loves you very much ❤️

Oooh I wonder if it’s possible to set the tone early on this site. No gate keeping (except against bigots and the Lady Karens etc.)

Surely, nothing bad could happen at a place called Northanger Abbey

In 2025 I hope we put to bed the notion of the “right kind” of Austen fan. The idea that liking certain adaptations over others makes you better than other fans, or in some way that you “get it” more than them. It’s tired. It’s boring. It’s over.

If @focusfeatures.bsky.social ever announces a Pride and Prejudice anniversary screening I wanna see a commemorative popcorn bucket that is either the boiled potatoes OR the random chicken dish.

Make your very own Pemberley gingerbread house for the holidays! Free template in the video description!

tfw you're visiting a friend for the first time and you cannot help observing that it must be a very inconvenient sitting room in the summer-time, for the windows are full west

Yeah, I’m into Jane Austen (rejecting men)

We talk about period drama actors having “cellphone face,” but every single actor in Dangerous Liaisons had “fax machine face.”