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: My Essays and Reviews
Milk Fever – a review
“My head and heart informed me that mothering wasn’t contrary to learning, yet instead part of it. I can write …
Mansfield Park is a Tragedy, Not a Comedy
I’m really excited about discussing Mansfield Park with all of you this year – so excited that I can’t wait …
“Tar and blood and needles of glass”
Ninety-six years ago today, at 9:05 a.m., the French cargo and munitions ship Mont Blanc collided with the Norwegian supply …
3 or 4 Families in an Italian Village
Remembering a happy childhood can bring sadness, says the narrator of Connie Guzzo-McParland’s debut novel The Girls of Piazza d’Amore, …
L.M. Montgomery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
My recent trip to one of my favourite places in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, reminded me of L.M. …
Little Miss Austen: Sense & Sensibility – a review
The last page of Little Miss Austen: Pride & Prejudice, A Counting Primer, was hilarious, with its reference to Mr. …
The Unfinished Child – a review
“This was the child she’d said she couldn’t wait to meet, but now their meeting was all wrong. It was …
What Matters in Jane Austen? – a review
The short answer is, “even the smallest detail matters.” But the bigger question is, “why does it matter?” In my …
Jane Austen on Sex, Money, and Power
Several essays from this year’s fabulous JASNA AGM in New York (“Sex, Money and Power in Jane Austen’s Fiction”) are …
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