Jane and Me: Caroline Knight, Jane Austen's Fifth Great Niece
Chawton House is many things to many people – to Caroline it will always be home. As a direct descendant of Jane’s brother, Edward Knight, Caroline grew up at Chawton House while it was still her family’s private home. Caroline’s early life was filled with the delights of living in a sixteenth-century English manor, the good cheer of family gatherings and centuries-old Christmas traditions in the Great Hall, the beauty of a country life, and the joys of helping her Granny bake cakes and serve Jane Austen devotees in the Chawton House tea room. When she was seventeen, Caroline and her family left the home her family had lived in for centuries, following the death of her grandfather, Edward Knight III. In this talk Caroline will share some of her most precious memories of her childhood at Chawton House and the writing of Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage over 25 years later.
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Caroline’s talk will be followed by a Twitter Q&A.
Caroline Knight
Caroline Jane Knight is Jane Austen’s fifth great niece and among the last of the Austen family descendants to live at Chawton House. Caroline has had a career in marketing which took her to Australia in 2008. Caroline was a finalist in the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Awards in 2012 and the same year was made an honorary life fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Caroline is founder and chair of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation and owner of The Greyfriar Group, a marketing and events business. In 2017 Caroline published her memoir Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage about her childhood at Chawton House, available at the Chawton House online shop:
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Pride & Prejudice (& Scones!) // COOKING WITH CLASSICS, Ep. 3
In this third episode of #CookingWithClassics, let's discuss:
✶ what makes Pride & Prejudice a classic novel and the nature of genre and how it changes over time,
✶ writing lessons learned from a book published OVER 200 YEARS AGO,
✶ story mediums (book! movie! miniseries!) and which allow for the best telling!
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D I S C U S S I O N Q U E S T I O N S :
Would you consider Pride & Prejudice to be one of the OG chick lit novels? Do you think it falls under that genre umbrella? If not, which genre would you put it in?
If you've seen the movie, miniseries, and read the book - which of those 3 versions of Pride & Prejudice do you like most? (Or do you prefer a different take on this classic story?!)
Do you think classic novels have to have an ~iconic~ opening line?
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Spring Cozy Cottagecore Books / Baking Muffins & A Bluebell Walk in the English Countryside
Happy Sunday! In today's peacfeful reading vlog, I'm sharing my favourite cozy cottagecore books for spring, as well as having a beautiful walk in a bluebell wood and baking chocolate banana muffins.
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LINKS:
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My free Spring Commonplace Book Guide:
The Lark by E Nesbit:
Father by Elizabeth von Arnim:
The Blue Castle by L M Montgomery:
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen:
The Key of Rose Cottage by Margaret Baker (out of print)
The Girls of Friar's Rise by Gwendoline Courtney (out of print)
The Wind Boy by Ethel Cook Eliot (out of print)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame:
Brambly Hedge - Spring Story:
Flower Fairies of the Spring:
Beatrix Potter stories:
Little Grey Rabbit's Spring Cleaning Party by Alison Uttley (out of print)
Hare and the Easter Eggs by Alison Uttley:
Cuckoo in June by Alison Uttley (out of print)
Wild Honey by Alison Uttley (out of print)
Country Things by Alison Uttley (out of print)
Plowmen's Clocks by Alison Uttley (out of print)
A Thatched Roof by Beverley Nichols (out of print)
Cottage Pie by Marjorie Hessell Tiltman (out of print)
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden:
The Country Diaries:
Through the Kitchen Window by Susan Hill (out of print)
Through the Garden Gate by Susan Hill (out of print)
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Victorian Era Weddings
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Here comes the bride....all dressed in white, was not a song or a sight that was beheld to those before the Victorian Era. Many popular European wedding customs can trace their origins back to the Victorian era, and more specifically the wedding of Queen Victoria herself. Join historian Marie Bartlett (nee Walker) for this program as she talks about the history of popular wedding traditions.
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Homemaking Radio: Preparation, Health, Reading from Several Books
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Jane Austen Afternoon Tea for Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Scones:
2c. flour
1/3c. sugar (can do 1/4c if you want less)
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
8 Tblsp unsalted butter (can get away with 6Tblsp)
1/2 c. sour cream (we use soymilk)
1 large egg
bake 400F 15-17 minutes. We have a scone pan and scoop the dough into the pan. There's no need to roll out the dough with this recipe
Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Mix sour cream or the milk and egg in a smaller bowl and add to the dry mix. Incorporate well. Add more liquid if necessary, but you don't want it too wet.
Mock Devonshire cream:
4 ounces Mascarpone
1c. heavy whipping cream (this stuff is SO EXPENSIVE right now) Buy a cow, just kidding
1 tsp vanilla extract
1-2 Tblsp white sugar. (powdered sugar can also be used)
Cucumber sandwiches
mandoline the cucumber without the skin on paper towels and add paper towels on top and press, to soak the moisture.
1 pkg of cream cheese or tofutti in a bowl
whip with hand mixer to make it lighter
We add seasoning to the mixture. You can add your favorite seasoning or nothing at all.
Cut crusts off of cheap, but light/airy white bread. Spread the whipped cream cheese on the bread, add the cucumbers, (lots) and option, you can add another slice of bread on top or have open sandwiches. We have closed sandwiches, but we won't let a lone slice of bread go to waste either. Then slice in triangles, squares, rectangles or all three.
We use Earl Grey tea from Oliver Pluff and Company. We order loose leaf by the pound. (no affiliation of any kind)
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