Re: PPB: Love-in-Idleness / Jane G. Austin

[email protected] (George J. Dance) posted:

> MummyChunk wrote:
> George J. Dance wrote:
> 
> Saturday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog
> Love-in-Idleness, by Jane G. Austin
> 
> A time for everything? O yes,
> And August is the time, I guess,
> To gather Love-in-idleness.
> Am I not right? Fair one, confess!
> [...]
> 
> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/08/love-in-idleness-jane-g-austin.html
> 
> Thanks George!
> 
> Thank you for reading and commenting. Austin made her reputation as a novelist, but
> she was a pretty good poet, too. Sadly, all I've seen of her published poetry have been
> the 8 poems I've blogged. (She published one more in September, but I haven't found
> a copy yet.) There's a website devoted to her, https://janegaustin.com/ -- but it doesn't
> even mention her poetry that I can see. I'm glad to see she's picked up some 21st-
> century fans, and I hope there will be more to come.
> 



I suppose it should be noted that this is Jane G. Austin, a different poet from another famous poet also named Jane Austin.

(Typo corrected.) 


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