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

> Will Dockery wrote:
> George J. Dance <user2782> posted:
> 
>> Will Dockery <user3274> 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.
>> 
> 
> 
> Her poetry definitely needs to be archived.
> --
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Agreed; for people to discover her poetry, they have to be able to
find it. And PPB is pretty much the only place on the web to do that;
Discover Poetry has her "February" poem (the first one I came
across), but the only way to find the rest seems to be in the
scans of the anthology on the Internet Archive.

That's why I decided, even though it's incomplete, to add
her calendar to the list on the PPB's Canon page. If the "September"
one turns up, I'll add it later and make the necessary adjustments.
That may help keep her from being buried.


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