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Category Archives: Fiction Inspired by Jane Austen

“Oh, novels! What would I do without you?”

March 3, 2023

Let’s read Jane of Lantern Hill! Thanks to everyone who commented—here, on social media, in letters and emails, and in …

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Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

February 10, 2023

What are your favourite Pride and Prejudice-inspired books? With Valentine’s Day coming up, since this novel is one of the …

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Rereading Persuasion, Part 2

January 20, 2023

I don’t think I’ll ever tire of reading about second chances. I finished rereading Persuasion, and I’ve been thinking about the …

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Elinor and Marianne

October 30, 2018

I loved finding Jane Austen’s Elinor Dashwood in Emma Straub’s novel Modern Lovers, just as I loved finding Marianne Dashwood …

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Why Did Jane Austen Abandon The Watsons?

May 5, 2017

It’s a pleasure to introduce this guest post by Kathleen A. Flynn on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons. Kathleen’s …

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The Scene-Painter, Part Two

October 7, 2014

As I promised in yesterday’s blog post, “Mansfield Park in Montreal,” I’m posting the second part of Diana Birchall’s “The Scene-Painter,” in …

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The Trouble with Flirting – a review

July 28, 2014

In her YA novel The Trouble with Flirting, Claire LaZebnik draws on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for inspiration for both characters …

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“The Watsons in Winter”: An Interview with Deborah Yaffe

February 6, 2014

Deborah Yaffe, author of Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom, is writing about “The …

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Longbourn – a review

November 13, 2013

“The very shoe-roses were got by proxy.” This line from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sparked Jo Baker’s fascinating exploration …

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Among the Janeites – a review

October 9, 2013

What are Janeites, and who wants to be one of them, or spend time among them? George Saintsbury invented the …

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Welcome!

I write about Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, L.M. Montgomery, and other writers I admire, and I’ve hosted a few online celebrations here in honour of the 200th anniversaries of Jane Austen’s novels. After completing my PhD in 19th century English literature at Dalhousie University, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and then I taught for a few years in the Writing Program at Harvard University. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and I’m currently working on a novel.

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Youth and Experience

Youth and Experience

A blog series celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Emma in the Snow

Emma in the Snow

Guest posts in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Emma.

Essays

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park

My essay “The Tragic Action of Mansfield Park" appears in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Mansfield Park.

Among the Proto-Janeites

"Among the Proto-Janeites: Reading Mansfield Park for Consolation in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1815" was published in Persuasions On-Line 35.1.

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    “I am important to myself”: Emily of New Moon
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    Down to the Sea

An Invitation to Mansfield Park

An Invitation to Mansfield Park

A series of guest posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

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