Showing posts with label Jane Austen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Austen. Show all posts

Friday, August 31, 2007

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility



"He received the kindest welcome from her; and shyness, coldness, reserve, could not stand against such a reception."



"'Well,' said he, 'we have brought you some strangers. How do you like them?'"



"To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look at this face."


Once again, these are by someone named C. E. Brock, dated 1898, for a 1906 multi-volume set of the works of Jane Austen.

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility



"The gentleman offered his services, took her up in his arms, and carried her down the hill"



"To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him."

These images are by someone named C. E. Brock, dated 1898. The book they are from is dated 1906.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, 1906



This is the frontispiece of the Sense and Sensibility volume of a twelve-volume set of her works, limited run of 1250, published by Frank S. Holby. Here's the caption to the picture:

This is from a portrait of Jane Austen, said to have been paitned when she was on a visit to Bath, at about the age of fifteen, by Johann Zoffany. The original is in the possession of the Rev. J. Moreland Rice, Rector of Bramber, Sussex, and grandson of Miss Austen's second brother Edward. It is here reproduced by the kind permission of Mr. Rice, who tells me that it formerly belonged to Colonel Austen of Kippington, a descendant of the kind "Uncle Francis" Austen, who was Miss Austen's great-uncle, and the early friend of her father. He gave it to his friend, Mrs. Hardinge-Newman, a devoted admirer of the novelist, and her step-son, Dr. Hardinge-Newman, left it to Mr. Rice. -Ed.


The original painting referenced above can be found with this search. I'll be posting more from this book as I get time.