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Friday, September 14, 2018

Regency rendezvous: inside the world of Jane Austen fandom

A shot from Alejandra Carles-Tolra’s Where We Belong series.
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"Sophie Andrews discovered the true extent of Austen fandom online. She started her own blog, and visited the Jane Austen festival in Bath, where she met a group of like-minded people and formed the Jane Austen Pineapple Appreciation Society. “We organised a picnic towards the end of the festival, and two of us said, a bit offhand, wouldn’t it be fun if we all had a house party together?”

Read More: The Guardian

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