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Joking with Jane — and my daughter!

Greetings, friends! Happy 2022!

I’m sorry I disappeared from Austen Variations (and from the Internet more generally) these past few months. In late July, I was asked, unexpectedly, to teach high school English. What an adventure! Though I often feel as if I don’t know what I’m doing, I’ve had a great experience so far.

There has been one downside to teaching: I’ve done very little writing. (Boo!) However, I have made time to hang out with my funny, curious, and mischievous eleven-year-old daugh...

Threads of Magic: Excerpt

Hello everyone. I hope your New Year has been going well so far. I know some of you have been having an unexpectedly snowy time of it, but I hope it’s been a pleasant experience overall. Personally, I’m looking forward to Spring and longer days. 

I dropped off my daughter yesterday at her university, Royal Holloway.  For those of you who may not know it, I got my inspiration for Founder’s Hall from that university.  So if you need to visualize the Hall, then this is vaguely what it looks like. I...

Joking with Jane Austen in January by Diana Birchall

Mr. Collins and Lizzy

Of all the many reasons why I have loved Jane Austen for so long, one of the very greatest is her sublime brilliance as a humorist. This quality in her naturally appeals to me so much because, like Lizzy, I “dearly love a laugh.” But there’s more to it than that. It’s not just her obviously famous jokes and witticisms – it’s the unique quality she has that the more you reread her, the more wit you find! In what will seem an ordinary, polished, wordy 18th century sort of tra...

Pride, Prejudice and New Year’s Resolutions

Happy New Year, dear readers!  Many of us enjoy Pride and Prejudice as an insight into the Georgian culture; a romance with refinement; a testament to the sharp wit of a female writer. However, did we ever consider it to be a compass for New Year’s resolutions? Have you begun writing yours?

Jane Austen gave us a multitude of advice to follow, from striving to be an accomplished woman to heeding the wisdom of our elders.

(After all we cannot become truly accomplished unless we practice, can we?)...

January Jigsaw by Jennifer Altman

Hello, friends! Happy 2022! I hope the new year is off to a good start for one and all.

For today’s post, I thought I’d do something simple and fun. Below you will find three images for your jigsaw puzzling pleasure. Simply click on the image, click OK, and begin puzzling! Hope you enjoy!

Until next time!

JA

 

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Happy New Year! Dangerous Magic Giveaway Winners

Announcing the giveaway winners! 

I originally was planning to give away only TWO e-books, but there were so many people who were interested, I decided to give away not two but SIX copies! Hey, it’s the New Year, so I’m feeling generous…

I hope you enjoy Dangerous Magic!

Eva Edmonds

tgruy

Sabrina

Cathi

Susanne

Brenda

Congrats and please drop me a line at www.darcyregencyvariations.com to let me know which email address you’d like me to use (or perhaps I might use the one attached to your commen...

Her Sisterly Love–Cover Reveal, Excerpt, & Giveaway!

Happy Thursday! Can you believe 2021 is almost over? I’ll be starting 2022 by releasing a novella, as you may have seen on social media. Her Sisterly Love releases on Monday, 24 January, and I am so excited about it. Today, I will show you the gorgeous cover and share an excerpt. On top of that, there is a giveaway. I have three copies of the e-book up for grabs; comment for a chance to win one!

First, a bit about the story. The plot is one of a handful of ideas I have that I have been sitting o...

An It’s Always Been You and Me Christmas

It’s the first Monday after Christmas! The presents have been reduced to ripped wrapping paper and packaging, and most, if not all, of the leftovers are eaten and gone but our Deck the Shelves Christmas Sale is going on if you didn’t see our  post on Christmas Day! I have 3 books in the sale: It’s Always Been Us is FREE until December 29th (Amazon won’t let me list it for longer), It’s Always Been You and Me is 99¢, and Undoing is $2.99. Check out the sale post for the wonderful books on sale fr...

2021 Deck the Shelves in the Closet Book Sale

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! The Holiday season is in full swing. We’ve finished Thanksgiving (in the US) and Chanukkah, and Christmas Day is here. Our halls are decked and presents opened. How about something for those gift cards to tide you over in your quiet hours as you await New Year’s Day 2022?

Like a great book!

 

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2021 DECK THE SHELVES IN THE CLOSET BOOK SALE

Lady Catherine de Bourgh had a good idea, but she didn’t tell Mr. Collins what to put on those shelves. But we do!

Run...

Twas the night before…

Dragons and children at Christmas? It’s bound to get interesting.

December 24, 1824                       Pemberley, Derbyshire, England

Darcy led the family downstairs into the cellar where Pemberley was waiting. In the last year the little firedrake had become too large to fit through the doors in the house, much to the family’s dismay. It had been then he discovered that like Longbourn, Pemberley had a dragon tunnel running between the cellars and the dragon lair. Old Pemberley had...