The Austen Website Novice

Setting up my own Jane Austen website

Name: Jules

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Latest news....

Sorry I haven't posted here lately. Here's the latest news....

Emma notes finished. Mansfield Park will be next, but won't start until next week. Technical issues being resolved and real life interfering - but I will be back! Promise!

www.austen-beginners.com

Monday, August 14, 2006

Emma notes coming along - and putting up some of the juvenilia

Emma notes are up to about half way, but I got bored, so I've started putting up some of dear Jane's juvenilia. That's the stuff she wrote as a teenager - highly entertaining and I recommend it as light reading!

Have fun...

www.austen-beginners.com

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Sense and Sensibility notes finished - Emma next!

The notes on the text of Sense and Sensibility are finished at last. Emma is next - not sure how long that will take me to get going! I'm trying to increase the website traffic and also to clean up a few coding problems with some of the pages.

Please visit!

www.austen-beginners.com

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Updating links and housekeeping

Boring stuff that has to be done - some outdated links fixed and some tidying up done.

Yawn....

Back to the S&S notes now, I promise!

By the way - anyone interested in buying the ebooks? Just asking....

www.austen-beginners.com

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Sense and Sensibility notes started

Back from holiday, and thought I'd better get some work done - not the real work of course, the fun stuff...

Sense and Sensibility is next up for text notes, and have managed to get chapter 1 done.

Ebook sale items getting started soon.

Must work on keeping the suntan going...

www.austen-beginners.com

Saturday, July 08, 2006

P&P notes finished - off on holiday...

Notes to P&P are done - working on the ebook next, but off on holiday for 2 weeks now. Relaxation, sun, sea, sand - well, you get the idea.

See you in 2 weeks!

www.austen-beginners.com

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

All the novels are up!

Finally done it! All the main novels are up on the website - text, quotes and plot.

Now working on the notes to the text - P&P has got as far as chapter 40, once that is done the rest will follow. Will then start selling the annotated e-texts - got to get back the money somehow that I've spent on hosting costs, bandwidth etc blah blah blah...

I'm sure Jane Austen was never this mercenary - but I can certainly undertstand why she got mad at publishers who paid her a pittance then never bothered to actually get the stuff into print.

How times change - or maybe they don't....

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