From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Novel idea
Thursday 21 February 2013
The Royal Mail unveiled a set of six new stamps today depicting all of Jane Austen‘s published novels to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.
All six, including this one shown outside the Jane Austen’s House Museum in Hampshire, are now on sale.
See also here.
Jane Austen stamps β in pictures: here.
A TWITTER troll bombarded a Labour MP with a series of abusive messages after she supported a successful campaign to feature Jane Austen on the Β£10 note, a court heard yesterday: here.
Related articles
- Jane Austen stamps go on sale (guardian.co.uk)
- Stamps show Jane Austen book scenes (bbc.co.uk)
- Jane Austen stamps to go on sale (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
- Postage stamps commemorate Austen’s novels (dawn.com)
- British stamps commemorate 200th anniversary of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (todaynews.today.com)
- A Jane Austen Teatime (englishtea.us)
- Jane Austen and the Concept of Accepting a Marriage of Convenience (reginajeffers.wordpress.com)
That is one big STAMP! π
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Maybe for an unusually big envelope π
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I love Pride n Prejudice – both movie n book!
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Maybe the stamps will cause more people to read the books.
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I love Jane Austen’s novels! Would be nice to have those stamps!
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Maybe someone from Britain will send you a letter with those stamps.
Or you can order them at
http://shop.royalmail.com/jane-austen/jane-austen-stamp-set/invt/sku0007010/
where there is also more information on the stamps.
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wow! thanks!!!!!!!!!!! π π
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You are welcome; like always π
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