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

George J. Dance <[email protected]> posted:
> Will Dockery <[email protected]> posted:
>> [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 Aust[e]n. 
> > 
> I think she was worried with being confused with novelist and sometime poet Jane
> Austen (with an E), and that's why she used either her maiden name (Goodwin) or its 
> initial when signing her writing. 
> 
> It's easy enough to confuse the two; both were extremely popular novelists who also 
> wrote poetry but didn't publish much of it. Austen wrote mainly verses to entertain her friends; 
> I hope to get one or two on the blog one of these days. Austin did publish poems in 
> print magazines, but they were never collected. Too bad, since what I've found shows
> her to be a skilled, versatile poet.

Thanks, I'll try to remember the subtle difference in the spelling of their names 

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