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Jennifer Forest

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http://www.goodreads.com/JenniferForest

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March 12, 1973 in Australia

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http://www.jennifer-forest.com

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Crafts & Hobbies, History, Literature & Fiction

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January 2012

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Jennifer Forest is passionate about history, buildings, design and books. In between walking her energetic miniature dachshund and planning her latest crafty creation, she writes books and works as a freelance curator for museums.

Jennifer's love of Jane Austen and craft lead to her first best seller, Jane Austen's Sewing Box. Her next book, Behind Jane Austen's Door takes a tour of a Regency house, room by room, to explore the delicate challenges and the beautiful lives of Jane Austen's women.

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Make Do and Mend

I have an ambivalent relationship with mending, I do mend but I don’t do socks! (So it is kind of funny that I have a chapter in a mending book, but I’ll get to that later.) I struggle between two views on mending: ✓ that I should be “good”, and... read more »

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Books by Jennifer Forest

Average rating: 3.89 · 27 ratings · 13 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Jane Austen's Sewing Box: Craft Projects & Stories from Jane Austen's Novels 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Behind Jane Austen's Door 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer Forest is currently reading:

Knitting the Threads of Time: Casting Back to the Heart of Our Craft

by Nora Murphy

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May 20, 2012 10:35pm

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Jennifer Forest is now friends with John Biccard
May 26, 2012 08:28pm
Jennifer Forest is currently reading: Knitting the Threads of Time: Casting Back to the Heart of Our Craft by Nora Murphy	My rating:
May 20, 2012 10:35pm
Jennifer Forest made a comment on her review of The Longest Climb: The Last Great Overland Quest "Interesting journey. I don't know if its "utterly compelling" like the blurb on the back says, that seems like a bit to live up to, but the journey by...more "
May 20, 2012 10:34pm · see review
Jennifer Forest gave to: The Longest Climb: The Last Great Overland Quest by Dominic Faulkner read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 20, 2012 10:33pm
Jennifer Forest gave to: A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks	My rating:
May 03, 2012 10:00pm
Jennifer Forest gave to: Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky	My rating:
May 03, 2012 09:59pm
Jennifer Forest marked as to-read: The Iliad by Homer	My rating:
Apr 26, 2012 09:15pm
Jennifer Forest gave to: On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis read in April, 2012	My rating:
A delightful read, the perfect book to wind down with at the end of a busy day. I loved her story of buying a house in France (an American with a husband and child) and uncovering friends and life with family there. There are a lot of books in this g...more
Apr 12, 2012 06:57pm · see review
Jennifer Forest made a comment in the group Jane Austen — You Know You've Read Too Much Austen When... topic "When your husband asks "did you just quote me some Austen then?" in the course of normal conversation! "
Apr 12, 2012 06:48pm
Jennifer Forest made a comment in the group Jane Austen — What to include here topic "I must say I haven't read the Austenland books, I was actually a bit appalled at the idea to start with (I can be a bit of a purist at times on Austen...more "
Apr 12, 2012 06:47pm