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“She taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement.” Mrs. Smith in Persuasion.

 

“She taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement.” 

Mrs. Smith in Persuasion.

Jane Austen Knits Fall 2012, a 144-page special publication from the editors of Spin-Off magazine, explores the fashion and traditions of Jane Austen's time and novels, through inspired knitting patterns. This issue offers over 30 knitting patterns for shawls, spencers, socks, hats, mitts, and more. 

 

Inspired mama musings
 

 

Historic needle crafts
 

 

Interweave store

Article from   Moments with mother culture:

During our road travel in December I spotted “Jane Austen Knits” while browsing a magazine rack at one of our stops. Fond of knitting and fond of Jane Austen its cover caught my eye with the utmost swiftness. Back on the highway I read the interview of Jennie Chancey of the Sense & Sensibility pattern company as a first treat. Another interesting article gives some history of domestic life in Georgian England when “everyone but the very wealthy spun wool yarn and knitted.” All the articles have an intelligent and friendly touch to them. Moments with mother culture

 

 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is nothing more dangerous than a girl let loose in a craft store with a 40% off coupon. Don't you agree? That's how I ended up treating myself to a copy of Jane Austen Knits, and became inspired to get out the needles and actually finish the project that had languished on them for months (since Christmas, ahem...) and start another! 
 

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Living In Jane Austen's 'Emma'

Then again, part of the thrill lay in my discovering new facets of Emma on every rereading, things that I hadn't been aware that the novel was saying, glancing at, or knowingly avoiding. If Austen's writing might seem light on overt references to the grand historical narratives of her time, it doesn't mean that she was either ignorant or dismissive of them; rather, Emma sketches an alternative model of what it means to live in history, by offering a wealth of little details that connote much larger complexes of social, economic, and emotional exchange. The choice of one cheese, card-game, or piano over another often carries great weight in the novel, but Austen could have some confidence that her original readers would 'get' those glancing references without her having to spell them out, whereas we might now need exactly the kind of clarification that footnotes can provide - not an aggressive, interpretative corralling, but a laying open of possible contexts, with which a reader can do as much or as little as she or he desires.  Read all: Huffington post

Carrigglas Manor

Carrigglas Manor

Five kilometers north of Longford Town on the T15 stands stately Carrigglas Manor. A beautifully restored Gothic Revival style Manor house built by Thomas Lefroy in 1837 and which has been the Lefroy family seat ever since.

The romantically castellated and turreted house was designed by the prominent Irish architect Daniel Robertson of Kilkenny. The internationally acclaimed James Gandon designed the magnificent stable-yard; to-day it is the only surviving example of his agricultural work. Chief Justice Thomas Lefroy who built the house was a youthful inamorato of the novelist Jane Austen, it being frequently suggested that the character Darcy in Pride and Prejudice was modelled on him.

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A Receipt for a Pudding in Verse

Martha Lloyd’s Household book is on display at the Museum throughout this year -The Year of at Home with the Austens-  and some of the entries in it are very unusual.

Martha was the sister of Mary Lloyd who married Jane Austen’s eldest brother, James. She lived with Jane Austen, her sister, Cassandra and their mother, Mrs Austen at Chawton.

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