I confess to so far not being a huge Jane Austen fan. I’ve read all her novels three or four years ago except Mansfield Park, which I am yet to read. I have just discovered Barbara Pym a modern classic author who is often compared to Jane Austen and whose books I am thoroughly enjoying. As a result I am eager to read Mansfield Park and perhaps revisit Austen’s other works. Barbara Pym might be worth a try for you. The Sanditon tv series is brilliant. Loved this video you made and I have just ordered a copy of The Georgians as it looks really interesting and I managed to find a copy on sale.
@EnglishroserebeccaАй бұрын
I love Colin Firth as Mr Darcy he’s dashingly handsome. 😂.
@rachaelrobinson20508 ай бұрын
This video was a true delight! But the only complaint I have is that you neglected to link your wonderful cardigan! Could you do so if possible? Thanks ever so much!
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
It's the Althea Bookselves cardigan by Joanie! The link is now in description but full disclosure that this was gifted ❤️
@llamabean5296 ай бұрын
I've been eyeing this cardigan since it came out, it's super sweet and suits you well.
@rachaelbird92508 ай бұрын
You should visit Jane's home in Hampshire and her last home town Winchester which is where she is buried.
@Claire_Fenby8 ай бұрын
Very lucky to have been to both ❤️ I have two videos of my trip to Chawton on my channel
@CarinaBoneBooks8 ай бұрын
Going to Bath for the first time this year and getting all the inspiration from your videos, Claire. Thank you for your phantastic, lovely, entertaining content. 🛀
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I hope you have a wonderful time!
@CoynieReads8 ай бұрын
Okay this has convinced me that I do need to pick up the Darcy/Elizabeth decorations when I’m next in Bath 😍
@norajacobsen8 ай бұрын
Hi Claire, thank you for another brilliant video. I love Jane Austen and it was really nice to see a bit of Bath, makes me want to go there even more. Best wishes from Sweden!🌟🛁
@janethocevar37608 ай бұрын
I love all your videos and really enjoyed this one. I am a fan of Jane austen! I always look forward to seeing your videos. So refreshing! I understand your feelings when you didn't pay to get into the abbey. Lol I always think I am going to jail for something 😂
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Like get the handcuffs ready 🚨 Thank you for watching!
@katepoche46038 ай бұрын
I wish I could put the 1995 Darcy with the 2005 Elizabeth!
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I also love Jennifer Ehle so the 1995 adaptation is perfect for me ❤️
@Sarah_Naomi8 ай бұрын
How lovely! Thank you for this video and I hope to explore Bath too one day 😊🛁
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@stephanieneath31358 ай бұрын
Please can you tell me where your bookish cardigan is from?
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Althea Bookselves cardigan by Joanie (link is in the description)
@eugeniasnyder88458 ай бұрын
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@lcb65348 ай бұрын
Lovely video, as always 🛁😊
@irhonda31Ай бұрын
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@JaneAustenAndAdjacentBooks8 ай бұрын
I love Sanditon! If you are interested in spending more time with those characters I recommend 'Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Novel Completed' by Jane Austen and Another Lady. It was originally published in 1975 but has been reprinted a couple times since. My favourite characterization of Sidney Parker is Carrie Bebris' Mr & Mrs Darcy Mystery 'The Suspicion At Sanditon' from 2016.
@melissaholton51615 ай бұрын
I love this! You are so wonderful, in your excitement for Bath, Jane Austen... Love it and so glad I found your channel! Thanks for all of the book haul info . :)
@BookishTexan8 ай бұрын
🛁 Your music choice for the footage of Bath was inspired.
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I just had to do it!
@katiejlumsden8 ай бұрын
I loved Miss Austen, and I think you’d like it. It’s a real favourite of mine. 🛁
@gillwoolley65158 ай бұрын
I love Bath, and living 30 minutes on the train away, visit regularly. I'm going next month to see Lucy Worsley. She is doing a talk on her book about Agatha Christie. Thanks Claire, good to see you back. Xxx❤🛀🛀🛀
@susanroberts90528 ай бұрын
🛁🛁🛁 Greetings from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
@hilarycartlidge61358 ай бұрын
Wonderful 🛀 thanks Claire... re Bath, yes a beautiful classical place architecturally, and the scary whalebone-like inner structure of the Abbey 😯 ... thanks for showing the Royal Crescent (what was the grand house on the hill with the lily pool pond below a weir? Just gorgeous) all the historical resonance of the Royal Crescent and Pump rooms, I really love the current shops you show us too, cafés and book shops, thanks for that, it gives me a sense of Bath Now... plus the Persephone store of course (not shown here but in my thoughts), and all this so convenient for Oxford or London... looking forward to your further adventures, possibly another decision, South or North? (I am a Northerner)... looking forward to it, even if it's just a review of your big book on Georgian England 🤔
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@JacquelineCaron5 ай бұрын
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@nkfbrx8 ай бұрын
🛀 I loved Bath when I visited a few years ago - it was actually the first post-lockdown trip for my partner and I so also feels like a special place for us. Also I just went and ordered the Jane Austen blend from Sally Lunn's for my friend's birthday next week, thanks for the inspiration. It'll be perfect for her!
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@FusionStudioUK8 ай бұрын
You are wise. It takes forever to get to Bath (short A 😂) from here. We're going in March and are breaking it up with a stop in Stratford
@gogo_lopez8 ай бұрын
It's always so lovely spending time with your videos Claire! ❤🛀
@LeonelaEsteve8 ай бұрын
Such a lovely video! And you were right: I totally geeked about everything you showed 😂 🛁
@crazypatterns938 ай бұрын
I was born, raised and still live in the same county as Bath and I use both pronunciations interchangeably. I wouldn't worry about it!
@polkadot10188 ай бұрын
This was such a lovely video! 🛀 I've been to Bath a few times and am now counting down until my daughter will get enough out of it to book another trip!
@gracetaylor73518 ай бұрын
🛁 thanks Claire I really enjoy this place really would love to good and visit sometime in my life . But this one thing better I still get to see England and Jane Austen .❤
@MJ-in-Canada8 ай бұрын
It’s wonderful to spend time with you again!🛁
@margaretquinn53358 ай бұрын
So enjoyed this video, Thank you.🛁🛁🛁🛁🛁
@badfaith4u8 ай бұрын
I love your Jane Austen inspired items. What a lovely trip to Bath. 🛁
@iri2be8 ай бұрын
I totally agree about Jane Austen’s wicked sense of humor. It shows up so much in her letters !
@janiceallan29818 ай бұрын
So enjoyed your video as always. Thank you xx 🛀
@freshparchment8 ай бұрын
🛁I agree that Miss Austen is a wonderful read and thanks for the two nonfiction recommendations. Thank you so much for taking me back to Bath! I spent some of my university time in Bath and worked at the Jane Austen Centre, but living in the US makes it hard to come back and visit. I'm living vicariously through you. 💜 Also, your Tudor recommendations are spot on! They're my go-to for my mother's birthday and Christmas presents.
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching 💓
@BlatantlyBookish8 ай бұрын
Thank you for taking me with you to Bath. I'm just sitting here experiencing all of my Jane Austen related travel dreams vicariously! 🛁🥰
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it ❤️
@fionahowellwrites53028 ай бұрын
I loved visiting Bath! I'm a huge Jane Austen fan. When I was at her house, I was going to buy Persuasion and Persuasion randomly fell on me in the shop. LOL Hello, from New Hampshire, US! :D
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
It was meant to be then! 📚
@caitlancole91368 ай бұрын
🛁 Yay new video! Now I want to revisit Bath!
@sashahawkins8 ай бұрын
Gorgeous haul! Always love your vlogs. 🛁🛁🛁
@angelahampson3918 ай бұрын
Delightful content. Currently reading Lucy Worsley’s biography of Agatha Christie which is hard to put down 🛁
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed it too!
@patricialux61978 ай бұрын
I loved this! How id love to be there in 🛀!! Lovely video. Having enjoyed others im subscribing today. I love Jane Austen. I read most of Juvenalia last year...im delighted to imagine you reading this, what joy! Very very much fun!! In California, so far from 🛀. Nice to see your filming of it, & well done! Love the book jacket😂.
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching! So glad I could transport you to Bath 💓
@sarahel198 ай бұрын
What a lovely video. Going to Bath and to those wonderful bookshops has been a dream of mine for years. Also, I'd be interested to know your thoughts on the Sanditon TV series.
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I need to get some days of work to just sit and binge!!
@bfranklin10524 ай бұрын
I love your videos. Love the chattiness, the bath/bathiness, the tour at the end, the haul (I now have The History Book from her juvenilia (sp?) in my HOLD queue at the library, as well as the Hornby). Each new video I watch, I'm so delighting in getting to know you and Ben. 🛁📚🕍
@Claire_Fenby12 күн бұрын
Thank you! I hope you enjoy all my future videos too 💓
@MichelePJ8 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed seeing everything! I love Sanditon series, especially season 2 and 3. Colin Firth will always be my Mr. Darcy! 😁 Persuasion has always been my favorite Jane Austen novel, so thank you for showing your video of Bath, one day I hope to cross the pond to see it for myself! 🛁📚❤
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I really hope you get to visit! It’s such a special place 💓
@mariat.39618 ай бұрын
🛁 That was a lovely video!! Enjoyed it so much. My God what would our lives have been like if Jane Austen hadn’t written her wonderful novels! Bleak indeed !!
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
I couldn't agree more!
@katrinadunne13618 ай бұрын
🛁🛀 As usual, loved this video! Shockingly I've never been to Bath yet, but it's definitely on my list as a big fan of Jane Austen 😁
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
It's such a beautiful city! I hope you get to visit soon
@circleofleaves26768 ай бұрын
In similar geek mode... Is it out of control yet that my Virginia Woolf collection (books by or about VW) is now at least 60 books?
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Your collection is just getting started 😉
@monica_has116lentilsand2cats8 ай бұрын
absolutely love your chatty videos! 🛀🏻📚💌❤️🐾🐾
@Claire_Fenby7 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching ❤️
@robyngrieve96658 ай бұрын
Love the chatty ones.🛁
@WhatVictoriaRead8 ай бұрын
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@adrienne40288 ай бұрын
🛁❤ Lovely video.
@Bicoastalwitch8 ай бұрын
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@____wicked.witch.of.the.words_8 ай бұрын
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@areadersalmanacwithceleste13668 ай бұрын
I was really carried away by Sanditon and discuss it fondly in one of my vlogs. I also enjoyed the TV series, though many “Janeites” frown on it. I really liked it! Great camera tour of Bath, especially the shots where you are looking up the hill at buildings. Welcome back. ❤