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Sarah Emsley

Sarah Emsley

Monthly Archives: November 2010

“Vernon Milkiness” (in Brookline, MA)

November 9, 2010

I’ll be speaking on Jane Austen’s Lady Susan and Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country at a Jane Austen …

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Jane Austen in Nova Scotia Website

November 9, 2010

Last night was the official launch of the website “Jane Austen in Nova Scotia,” created and maintained by Anne Thompson, …

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The Golden Mean

November 1, 2010

My review of Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean is published today in the November issue of Open Letters Monthly. …

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Happy 200th Anniversary to Pride and Prejudice!

Title page for the first edition of Pride and Prejudice

Click on the title page above for my series of posts on rereading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

"I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London." Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen on receiving Pride and Prejudice, 29 January 1813

Happy 100th Anniversary to The Custom of the Country!

The Custom of the Country

My edition of Edith Wharton's 1913 novel The Custom of the Country (Broadview, 2008)

“Know your own happiness”

Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues

My book Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues (Palgrave, 2005)

Essays by Sheila Johnson Kindred, Brian Southam, Peter W. Graham, and Sarah Emsley

Jane Austen and the North Atlantic

I edited this collection for the Jane Austen Society (2006)

A history of the oldest Protestant Church in Canada

St. Paul's in the Grand Parade

My book St. Paul's in the Grand Parade, 1749-1999 (Formac, 1999)

The New Compass

The New Compass

I co-founded and co-edited this literary journal from 2002-2004

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