Jane Austen is as Cool as a Cream Cheese
Jane Austen rarely uses similes or metaphors, but when she does, they’re memorable ones. In Jane Austen and Food, Maggie …
Category Archives: Jane Austen’s Letters
Books as Children
Jane Austen thought of her books as her children. Pride and Prejudice, which she called “my own darling Child,” was sold …
A Passion for Dead Leaves: Jane Austen and The Penderwicks
Sense and Sensibility was published two hundred and one years ago today, and I thought of Jane Austen’s heroine Marianne …
Pride and Prejudice at 200
On Wednesday, January 27, 1813, Miss Mary Benn dined with Jane Austen and her mother at Chawton Cottage, which happened …
Inspiration from Jane Austen
Have you ever searched the online concordance to Jane Austen’s novels for an apt, pithy quotation to write on a …
Mr. Lushington and the Franfraddops
In the Spring issue of JASNA News (the Jane Austen Society of North America Newsletter), there’s a lovely piece by …
“My Long Jumble”
Recently I’ve been re-reading Jane Austen’s Letters (1995, edited by Deirdre Le Faye), and I’ve been collecting some of my …
Sarah Emsley 