A Jane Austen Bookshelf Tour

[@freshparchment]

What a great collection! Unequal Affections will definitely be on my radar for the future.

[@SpinstersLibrary]

Lovely collection with some really gorgeous editions, makes me miss having my own Jane Austen books with me. Love the manuscript version of Lady Susan in particular, it's so special!

[@HamsavahiniVajraasthra]

Namaste & Hello Katie😊I absolutely loved the Lady Susan epistolary collection❤️, The Etiquetes book 💜and the Re-tellings you have collected💕Absolutely lovely collection👍👍👍😁Happy Reading😊📚📖

[@LiterallyJasmine]

Love love LOVE a bookshelf tour! (Also love your teapot earrings!)

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks :)

[@novellenovels]

I’m soooo excited and I’m starting with Mansfield park today and probably watch my pride and prejudice dvd.. Love all your Jane Austen books 🎉🎉🎉❤️

[@somogyilevente1554]

Thank you so much for choosing Mansfield Park to read. Reading it the second time completely changed my opinions. Everything is beautiful, wonderful. Fanny's Christian morals are truly something I look up to.

[@BeckaBella1]

Very cool manuscript edition of Lady Susan!

[@BookZealots]

I was planning on reading What Matters in Jane Austen, but a viewer let me know it contains spoilers. I won't be able to read it until next year after reading S&S and NA. I adore your edition of Lady Susan and seeing Austen's handwriting is just lovely.

[@carlosgb78]

Thank you so much for such an amazing video! The main part of my Jane Austen books are those that have been published by Norton Critical Editions. Maybe they are not the best-looking ones to be placed on a shelf but their content is worth any aesthetic issue. Anyway, I could not help but falling in love with those gorgeous SP books manuscripts! In spite of the challenges of deciphering unfamiliar handwriting, I am pertty sure that I would be carried away with the prospect of reading a book in such an intimate way. A great and lovable collection!

[@launchedathousand]

Jane Austen Early and Late sounds fascinating! Hope it lives up to the hype. I have several Austen books including a collection of all her published works as well as a couple nonfiction and retellings. Hoping to get a copy of What Matter's in Jane Austen as I borrowed a copy and I keep wanting to reread sections of it.

[@bookswithpetra]

I'm finally going to read Unequal Affection this year for Jane Austen July and I'm excited. Miss Austen is also on my TBR!

[@katiejlumsden]

Enjoy!

[@SgtJop]

Currently reading "Emma". You have a wonderful collection!

[@tillysshelf]

What a wonderful collection. I have a feeling that Lady Susan might be almost illegible in manuscript form though! The short story collection looks interesting.

[@spreadbookjoy]

I am just listening to the John Mullan book now and it is wonderful!

[@bouquinsbooks]

Beautiful collection! I started What matters in Jane Austen a couple of days ago (I couldn’t wait for July 🙄). So far, I like it a lot.

[@meghanthestorygirl4581]

Happy Jane Austen July! The History of England is probably my favourite piece of her juvenila. I got the same edition you have at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, which is where I assume you got your's too 😆

[@sarawilson9155]

First time doing a Jane Austen July. As I read both Mansfield Park and Persuasion last year (again), I’m going to listen to them both this month on audible. Very excited for the other prompts, hope to get lots read and watched. What Matters in Jane Austen is in the post to me!

[@katiejlumsden]

Jane Austen is wonderful on audiobook :)

[@ReadingNymph]

Lovely collection!

[@MsReadsAlot]

Thank you for the review of your Jane Austen collection! I only have 2 Austen books in physical copies! Lovely!!!!

[@kana7715]

Great collection! I only own pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility and persuasion by her, but I feel so compelled in getting more of her works in physical version whenever I see other people's collections

[@saranvdv2768]

Amazing collection!!😍

[@das9636]

Jane Austen did a dramatization of Sir Charles Grandison (by great Samuel Richardson) for a family performance. It will fit perfectly in your bookshelf.

[@praalgraf]

ah what a good collection ! i've got just the one with all her books in one

[@chiyapink7607]

One of the most stunning editions of Pride and Prejudice is the one by Barbara Heller. Every letter is included as a real folded and handwritten letter. Like your manuscript edition that might be hard to read but is an amazing reading experience:) I just started What Matters in Jane Austen and I enjoy it so gar.

[@katiejlumsden]

That sounds amazing!

[@FullyBookedMelissa]

Unequal affections going on my TBR immediately! Love that angle

[@taylorrae3316]

This was delightful! I just filmed my TBR and Miss Austen is on it! So excited, Happy Jane Austen July! 💐

[@GinaStanyerBooks]

Yippee! It’s here it’s here!!

[@Lu.G.]

Thank you for sharing your lovely collection of Jane Austen-related books! 📚 I look forward to Jane Austen July every year and am really enjoying re-reading Mansfield Park. 🤓 I wasn't sure which non-fiction I was going to choose, but I think I'm going to go with _What Matters in Jane Austen?_ 😬 Thank you, as always, for the wonderful recommendations.

[@katiejlumsden]

What Matters in Jane Austen is wonderful!

[@caterinabuttitta9696]

Hello. I love Jane Austion. How can we forget the quote from the novel Emma: There is something familiar in Emma's voice, it's a voice I've already heard. Characteristic of Jane Austion is a way of being, a feeling. You ask yourself: How is it possible that a whole life can be reduced to four words? This is the pleasure. Do you remember?

[@ElliesCozyChronicles]

Yay!!🎉🎉 I am very excited for Jane Austen July! Lovely collection! I specially like The Lady Susan book. I am reading it this month for the first time🤗

[@katiejlumsden]

Lady Susan is wonderful - enjoy!

[@sketchesbyboze]

now I'm curious to read John Mullan's book on Jane Austen, I LOVED his recent book on Charles Dickens

[@katiejlumsden]

I am so excited for his book on Dickens!

[@teressasliger]

I started Mansfield Park today 😀

[@rustiqjoy]

Very cool.

[@Raindrop2424]

Great video 😊 Maybe I should finally finish Northanger Abbey. Started it Probably almost 2 years ago and read over half of it. But because I read it in English and it’s sometimes language that I’m not familiar with it took me quite a while to read. So I decided to pause it despite really liking it. Maybe I try to read like a chapter or two a week or something like that.

[@saraspangler890]

I started to reread Mansfield Park today, I found my old copy, and the font is way to small for my old eyes, so I’m reading it on my iPad. I’ve re watched PP and Persuasion recently. I’ve just read The Heiress and really liked her writing.

[@ellie698]

I always love your enthusiasm and your breadth of knowledge of the subject. You inspire me to read more! Have you read Charlotte by Helen Moffett and The Forgotten Sister by Jennifer Paynter?

[@katiejlumsden]

I haven't read The Forgotten Sister but I have read Charlotte - in fact I worked on it in my old job (I'm an editor), which was great fun! I love it.

[@BlatantlyBookish]

It took me way too long to get around to watching this! I may have to get rid of my dedicated Jane Austen shelf. It's getting too stuffed! I also might have purchased the Tea With Jane Austen recipe book. It hasn't arrived yet. I still think of The Other Bennet Sister frequently! I also cannot wait to hear what you think of Sansei and Sensibility. The first half of the book really aren't Jane Austen retellings, and the second story was a bit traumatizing for me. I never got around to reading the part of the book I was most looking forward to, which of course were the Jane Austen related short stories.

[@katiejlumsden]

Yay I'm glad you bought Tea with Jane Austen too - you'll have to let me know what you bake! I'm excited for Sansei and Sensibility; I'm so curious . . .

[@CarolynsReadingRamblings]

What a great video and wonderful collection Katie! The Banker's Sister has been on my wishlist since you praised it so highly last year but I haven't managed to buy it yet so it will stay on the list for next year! As for my Austen book collection, I have various copies of her 6 major works (including the Collector's Library of P&P and Northanger Abbey, yay!) and the PEL edition of the bind-up of Lady Susan, Sanditon and the Watsons. Then for retellings and other formats I have Longbourn by Jo Baker (because of your recommendation), Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev, Pride by Ibi Zoboi, and the Marvel graphic novel versions of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey (they still haven't adapted Persuasion or Mansfield Park which makes me sad). Then for Austen related books I have Celebrating Pride and Prejudice by Susannah Fullerton, What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan, Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley, her collected letters edited by Deirdre Le Faye, Jane and Me: My Austen Heritage by Caroline Jane Knight, the Wicked Wit of Jane Austen compiled and edited by Dominique Enright, Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher by David McClay (not just related to Austen but contains their letters back and forth) the Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (not sure which category to put that in) and Miss Austen by Gill Hornby. 😀❤️📘.

[@katiejlumsden]

So many amazing reading plans :D

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

I am really going to try and read everything that I own about Jane Austen and I am really excited about reading this month please stay safe and strong and enjoy your reading love your number one Australia fan John ❤️❤️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[@katiejlumsden]

Enjoy!

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

@@katiejlumsden I will try to do that

[@maryh4650]

Oh NO! More books for me to read! Lol

[@Rreemmkh44]

Wowwwww thank you so much that was really helpful, and I have a question I’m not a native speaker of English and I want to start reading Jane Austen but I don’t know if the language like the vocabulary changes depending on the publisher and the collection, and if it does what is the easiest collection?

[@bellathereader1328]

Reading The Jane Austen Diet by Bryan Kozlowski. It's delightful, well-researched, and teaches us how to be "happy and healthy" the Jane Austen way. Good insight into Regency health and dietary practices. Recommended!!

[@marjorietalcott]

Katie - how wonderful would it be (in regards to Unequal Affections) if someone were to write a “what if” novel about Fanny Price picking Henry Crawford instead of Edmund? Actually what if someone bravely took all 6 novels on and rewrote the “what if” the heroine chose the rake? Does this exist? I would adore it!

[@gretchenfowler4502]

That's a great idea!

[@katiejlumsden]

I would love all of those what if novels!

[@julielynn86]

As soon as you upload a video I click like. :-)

[@gemmar5410]

hi Katie, I’m excited to participating in Jane Austen July, and want to be part of the “Mansfield Park” read-along that starts today. I am on Goodreads but would appreciate help because I am embarrased to say I don’t know how to join the group for the discussion! If I follow you is that all I need to do? I’ve never done this before. Thank you!

[@JulianTheRanger]

I wasn't planning to participate in Jane Austen July and yet I find myself rereading Pride & Prejudice, because I wanted something light and witty and satisfying.

[@charlenesims9063]

here is a great book of a jane austen retelling novel. Mary B by Katherin J. Chen. it is a retelling from the eyes of mary bennett. it was a great novel that i loved. but if you haven't read pride and prejuice i advse of people who have never read p&p. because it has spoilers. and the novel goes back and forth from mary bennett to past when all her sisters were young,and future when grown up. it is really well written and you can actually see where and when mary takes the reader in the story. this will be a good jane austen july retelling.

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks, sounds interesting!

[@bloobfew3499]

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