Archive for the “Ubsdell Blog” Category

Having written a book you then come across other information which you wish you had included and things that you wish you had said differently.  So here is a list:- Manydown Park I wondered what had happened to this, the site now inaccessible in the middle of a farming estate. at http://www.seekingjaneausten.com/page4.html we are told […]

I am extremely grateful to Alton Local Historian Jane Hurst, a volunteer at The Curtis Museum for the following comments on my Volume 2 which deals with Southampton and North Hampshire.  Amongst other publications Jane has written the walking guides, “Jane Austen and Alton” and “Jane Austen and Chawton. The Curtis Museum can be found […]

Jane’s niece, Anna Lefroy, was captured by R.H.C. Ubsdell in a tiny miniature in October 1845 when she was writing her continuation of Sanditon, intent on its completion and publication. She may not have got to an ending but she got two thirds of the way through the story, and having been in touch with […]

Wednesday 14th May Filming took place today of cameos from Sanditon-the-play at Glemham Hall, Suffolk. The play has been inspired by Ubsdell’s October 1845 portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s niece Anna Lefroy, when Anna was contemplating the publication of her addition to her Aunt’s work. Shot below is of Sir Edward and Clara discussing what […]

The Jane Austen and Anna Lefroy fragments of Sanditon have been adapted for the stage with plot development and a conclusion suggested by the Lefroy fragment. Cameos from the plot development have been filmed, and are currently in editing. There will be a Rehearsed Reading of the play at Colchester’s Headgate Theatre on Friday 27th […]

I first met Caroline Hervey-Bathurst at Little Somborne  when I was researching Ubsdell’s 1846 watercolour of the church. In my Hampshire books I illustrated the Hampshire that Jane Austen would have known with Ubsdell’s paintings, my photographs, and beautiful old ordnance survey maps. Caroline has, in oils, watercolours, mixed media and pencil brought to life […]

The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) have reviewed my books which give a pictorial guide to Hampshire just a generation after Jane Austen’s time.