Is this the face of a Teenage Jane Austen?

Fascinating new evidence in the form of letters has come to light, and may unravel the true identity of this young woman..

In these letters, the portrait is referred to as that of Jane Austen. The artist is Ozias Humphry (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozias_Humphry) and in his accounts of 1788, there is a bill for the portrait. He charged 13 Guinea’s. A vast amount at the time as a good maid only earnt £10 A YEAR!

 

Digital photographic analysis has revealed writing on the painting that appeared to show the novelist’s name, and also that of Humphry, as well as the date 1789.

This could finally prove that this is the actual face of Jane Austen, painted when she was a teenager of about 15.

It is now a matter of some urgency that this be proved, one way or another, whether this is a portrait of Jane Austen or not. Why, you may ask? Well, it has for some year had a license approved for it to be sold, even if the buyer is abroad. This would be a monumental loss to the UK.

Here is an article from The Guardian newspaper that brought attention to the issue again. There are several link in the article that are also interesting reads.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/23/jane-austen-family-say-note-establishes-disputed-portraits-identity?fbclid=IwAR1blv_6AiNL58P7AWylyehOINfrfCOkA6ZfTaMQg62uSGxEC4-iDbveDfc#img-1

Happy New Year!

I hope you all had the perfect Christmas and are ready to welcome 2019 with fresh goals. Having said that, I never make any New Year resolutions for one simple reason. I always tend to break them within a week or two. (me bad)

Anyway, I did want to share two pieces of exciting news with you;

First;

Mr Darcy’s Proposal won Book Cover of the Month, December, on Sassy Brits website. (www.alternative-reads.com)

Thanks to all my wonderful friends, family, readers and followers, we managed to see off all the competition and win this Award.

However, it has now been entered for Book Cover of the Year 2018!! YAY !

I hope you will all spare a few minutes of you busy days to pop over to Sassy’s website and vote for Mr Darcy’s Proposal.

It would be amazing if a JAFF author could win this.

To be clear, I don’t get any reward for winning, only a cyber medal similar to the one above and bragging rights, but I would still love to win it.

With your help, I might just do it.

Fingers crossed.

HOW TO VOTE;

Click on this link, scroll down until you come to the very small images of all the entries with a box above them. Click on the box for Mr Darcy’s Proposal and then press vote. Simple!

https://alternative-read.com/…/03/ar_cover-of-the-year-2018/

Second;

I have been persuaded to put three of my novels into Amazon KU & KOLL., UK site and American site only.  So, if you have Amazon Prime, you can read them for free. Yes, that’s right, FOR FREE.

They are;-

     

Mr Darcy’s Struggle                  Darcy to the Rescue                    To Love Mr Darcy

 

Thank you all so much for your help and continued support.

Martine x