Jane Austen's Birthday Soiree - Best Wishes from Your Best Men, Miss Austen!

Posted on the 16 December 2011 by Mariagrazia @SMaryG
Welcome to the  Jane Austen's Birthday Soiree on My Jane Austen Book Club! You know, this is an idea  Katherine Cox's at November's Autumn  and I had some time ago and we've invited other bloggers and Austen writers to join us in this celebration of Jane Austen's Birthday. But, after 30 of those friends accepted the invitation,   something strange happenedto me: the more I tried to figure out something special and original as Jane's birthday gift the more I found my ideas  and words inadequate. Our gifts could be letters (Jane loved writing them and wrote brilliant ones), cards or any other item we could think of, and we had to post it or about it today, on December 16th. So,  I decided to leave space to Jane's best men: who better than them can use words effectively and to the point? And who could  make Jane happier as guests to her birthday party? So, I'll leave the stage to Mr Darcy, Mr Tilney, Mr Knightley, Edmund Bertram, Colonel Brandon and Captain Wentworth. They and their words are my gift to Jane. There are gifts for you as well! You'll find a great Austenesque giveaway contest on each one of the participating blogs. Click, visit, comment all of them following the links in the list below and you'll get plenty of chances to win extraordinary prizes! Start from here, if you wish. The details of my giveaway are below, at the end of this post, which I really hope you'll like. Good luck to you all and a very happy birthday to our dear Jane. 
THE GIVEAWAY 
Choose one of the cards above, your favorite one, and tell us which is it in your comment. Don't forget to add your e-mail address, please.  Then choose one of the following books:

1. Tracey Kiely, Murder Most Persuasive 2. Victoria Connelly, A Weekend with Mr Darcy 3. Mary Lydon Simonsen, Mr Darcy's Bite 4. William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education 5. Claire Harman, Jane's Fame 
I'll pick up the name of one winner on 23rd December and will announce it here. This giveaway is open internationally.Now the celebration goes on all over the Austen blogosphere: the more, the merrier! Here's the list of the other blogs/sites participating in this cheerful Austen Soiree. Visit all of them and leave your comments. You will have lots of  chances to enter awesome giveaway contests and read brilliant posts dedicated to Jane Austen on occasion of her birthday. Good luck!!! (N.B. Remember we all live in different time zones, so not all of the participants will have posted their gifts to Jane when I am posting this. However, be patient, hold on. The wonderful prizes you'll find in the various contests are worth the effort to wait and try again. Don't miss any of the posts!)o   Alyssa Goodnighto   Austen Authors
o   Austenprose, Laurel Ann Nattresso   Brant Flakes, Marilyn Branto   Choc Lit Authors’ Corner, Juliet Archero   The Fiction vs. Reality Smackdown, Karen Doorneboso   First Draft, Cindy Joneso   The Heroine’s Bookshelf, Erin Blakemoreo   Jane Austen Brazil, Adriana Zardinio   The Jane Austen Film ClubJenny Allworthyo   Jane Austen SequelsJane Odiweo   Jane Started It! Laura Hile, Susan Kaye, Pamela Aidan, and Barbara Cornthwaiteo   Jane Austen in Vermont, Debo   Jennifer Bectono   Kaitlin Saunderso   Mesmered’s Blog, Prue Batten
o  November's Autumn, Katherine Coxo   O! Beauty Unattempted, Emily Snydero   One Literature Nut, Becky Rhodehouseo   Patrice Saratho   Pemberley Variations, Abigail Reynoldso   Reading, Writing, Working, Playing, Jane Greensmitho   Regency Sketches, Farida Mesteko   Regina Jefferso   El Salón de Té de Janeo   SemiTrue Stories, C. Allyn Piersono   Sharon Lathano   Stiletto Storytime, Courtney Webbo   Urban Girl Takes Vermont, Vera Nazariano   vvb32 reads, Velvet

(The graphics for the event has been created by Katherine Cox at November's Autumn)