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Happy Birthday Jane Austen! In honour of Jane's Birthday on 16th December, the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation are offering donors the chance to write in Jane's birthday card.   Simply make a donation through the form, and you can write in Jane's 'virtual' birthday card, which is  published  on the website.   Founded by Caroline Jane Knight, the last descendant of Jane Austen’s family to have been raised in Jane’s beloved Chawton, The Jane Austen Literacy Foundation works to effect positive and significant change to global literacy rates. End poverty It’s estimated that if every child in developing and low-income nations acquired basic reading skills, 171 million people would be lifted out of poverty. Equality Girls and boys deserve equal access to reading, writing and numeracy.  “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society”  -- Sonia Sotomayor  Empowerment Reading and writing are essential ski...

It's Jane Austen's birthday today and over at My Jane Austen Book Club , there are books and prizes to be won, as well as contributions from authors, like myself, which will be posted over the next 24 hours - don't miss it ! In celebration, Project Darcy and Searching for Captain Wentworth are both on offer on Kindle, as well as Mr Darcy's Secret - I hope you'll enjoy them if you get a chance to read them!  This week I went to see the Georgians Revealed exhibition at the British Library. It's well worth going to see and imaginatively put together. Sadly, I was unable to take photos to give you a glimpse of what's on offer, but a plethora of imagery was used to illustrate the themes of Homes and Gardens, Shopping and Fashion, Culture and Ideas, Leisure and Pleasure. Some of my favourites included Humphry Repton's Sketches and Hints in Landscape Gardening, with examples from his 'red books' where he showed before and after images of how a...

It wouldn't be fair to neglect someone as important and dear to   us   as  Jane Austen   on her birthday.   She was born on 16th December 1775, it’ll be 235 years next week . We owe so many immensely pleasant moments to her that we decided she deserved a great B-day celebration.   My Jane Austen Book Club and other bloggers and Austen dedicated writers are going to have a blog party in her honour. You are all invited to join us on our “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANE!” event on Thursday December 16 th . Who will be there? Where is the party going on? 1.      Adriana Zardini at   Jane Austen Sociedade do Brasil   2.      Laurel Ann at  Austenprose   3.      Vic Sanborn at    Jane Austen's World   4.      Katherine Cox at  November's Autumn   5.      Karen Wasylowski at  Karen Wasylowski   6.      Laurie Viera Rigler at Jane Austen Addict Blog  Jane Austen Addict   7.        Lynn Shepherd at her blog  Lynn Shepherd   8.        Jane Greensmith at  Reading, Writing, Working, Playing   9. ...