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Book Giveaway: Wentworth Hall à la Downton Abbey

Posted in Book review, Popular culture, tagged Abby Grahame, book giveaway, Wentworth Hall on April 24, 2012|

Update: Contest Closed. The winners are Laurel and Angela. Gentle readers: Two lucky readers have the opportunity to win Abby Grahame’s debut novel, Wentworth Hall and a vintage diary, courtesy of Simon & Schuster.

Wentworth Hall is a novel aimed at Downton Abbey fans:

 The Darlington family of Wentworth Hall, an elite British family, fills their time by caring for their extensive estate, and looking over their shoulders as they struggle to keep up an elaborate charade to hide their scandalous secrets of illicit romances, and bitter betrayals.

Wentworth Hall is the historical novel by debut author Abby Grahame, which is spot-on perfect for fans of Downton Abbey! Read and excerpt of the book at this link!

Two (2) winners will each receive:
A vintage diary and copy of Wentworth Hall!

Prizing courtesy of Simon & Schuster.

To join the contest, all you need to do is let us know what you think of Shirley McClaine joining the cast as Cora’s mother for Season Three of Downton Abbey. Make sure to leave your comments on Jane Austen Today, my other blog.

The contest, which closes Friday May 27, is open to US residents only. Please make sure I have a way to reach the winners, who will be chosen by random number generator!

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Book Give Away: Tea With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Drink, Regency Etiquette, Regency food, Regency World, tagged book giveaway, Kim Wilson, Tea With Jane Austen on June 30, 2011| 86 Comments »

Gentle Readers: To celebrate the 3 millionth visitor to this blog, I will be giving away Tea With Jane Austen, a delightful and informative book by Kim Wilson. Deadline: The contest will end the moment my blog meter records 3 million or July 4th, whichever comes first! Contest Closed! Congratulations, Sherry, and thank you ALL for participating and leaving such excellent questions!

All you need to do is leave a comment and a way for me to reach you. Please address this question: If Jane Austen came over for tea, which burning question would you want to ask her?

Thank you all for visiting my blog and for making it such a joy to meet you online.

Page 16 of Tea with Jane Austen. Image @Amazon.com

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Jane Austen Birthday Celebration Offers Free Gifts & Fabulous Posts

Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen Blog, Jane Austen Novels, Popular culture, tagged book giveaway, Happy Birthday Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Birtday on December 14, 2010| 22 Comments »

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 next Thursday December 16th. Who will be there? Where is the party going on?

My blog, Jane Austen’s World, will be joining in on the celebration with the post, Baby Jane Austen’s First Two Years! As well as these other fine authors and bloggers:

• Adriana Zardini at Jane Austen Sociedad do Brasil
• Laurel Ann at Austenprose
• Katherine Cox at November’s Autumn
• Karen Wasylowski at her blog
• Laurie Viera Rigler at Jane Austen Addict Blog
• Lynn Shepherd at her blog
• Jane GS at Reading, Writing, Working, Playing
• Jane Odiwe at Jane Austen Sequels
• Alexa Adams at First Impressions
• Regina Jeffers at her blog
• Cindy Jones at First Draft
• Janet Mullany at Risky Regencies
• Meredith at Austenesque Reviews
• Maria Grazia at My Jane Austen Book Club

You’ll find Happy Birthday posts and tributes to Jane Austen on all these blogs on December 16th with the HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JANE logo created by Adriana Zardini (JASBRA) just for the occasion. Lovely, isn’t it? Visit all the blogs on December 16th and leave your comments + e-mail address to have lots of chances to win one of the wonderful gifts we are giving away:


The books include – 1 signed copy of…

• Willoughby’s Return by Jane Odiwe
• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
• Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
• Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
• Intimations of Austen by Jane Greensmith
• Darcy’s Passions: Fitzwilliam Darcy’s Story by Regina Jeffers
• First Impressions. A Tale of Less Pride and Prejudice by Alexa Adams
• Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
• Bespelling Jane Austen by Janet Mullany

Other gifts:

• Austen bag offered by Karen Wasylowski
• DVD Pride & Prejudice 2005 offered by Regina Jeffers
• Package of Bingley’s Tea. (flavor “Marianne’s Wild Abandon” ) offered by Cindy Jones
• DVD Jane Austen in Manhattan offered by Maria Grazia
• 3 issues of Jane Austen Regency World offered by Maria Grazia

Giveaways will end on December 23rd . Winners will be announced by Maria Grazia, organizer of this celebration, on My Jane Austen Book Club.

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