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Category Archives: Northanger Abbey

Frightening Henry Tilney’s Housekeeper Out of Her Wits

June 15, 2018

Kim Wilson is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with …

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General Tilney, the Ogre of Northanger Abbey

June 11, 2018

“In an age when we are examining sexual predation and male power as never before, it may be revealing to …

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The Vanity of Human Riches: A Conversation About Class and Wealth in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

March 30, 2018

In today’s guest post for “Youth and Experience,” Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman discuss both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. …

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Eleanor and Isabella

March 23, 2018

Saniyya Gauhar, Mahlia S. Lone, and Laaleen Sukhera are members of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) and contributors …

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Reading, Misreading, and the Plain Truth

March 16, 2018

Lyn Bennett is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University, and her most recent book is Rhetoric, Medicine, and …

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Petitioning Beggars and Historical Whitewashing in Austen’s Financial Romance

March 9, 2018

Sara Malton is the author of Forgery in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde (2009), and …

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Bless Me, Henry Tilney, for I Have Sinned

March 2, 2018

I was hoping Margaret C. Sullivan would write about Henry Tilney for my blog series celebrating 200 years of Northanger …

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Riot!—what riot?

February 23, 2018

Judith Thompson contributed a guest post on the adoption plot of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for the blog series I …

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Parental Tyranny and Filial Disobedience in Northanger Abbey

February 16, 2018

Theresa M. Kenney says she’s “an Austenite by accident”: “I fell in love with Austen after being pressured to read …

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Teenaged Gothic Daydreams: Coming of Age in Northanger Abbey

February 9, 2018

Gisèle M. Baxter’s teaching and research interests include the Gothic inheritance, especially in Victorian/neo-Victorian literature and popular culture, dystopian and …

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Welcome!

I write about Jane Austen, Jane Austen for kids, and Edith Wharton. Sometimes I post about other writers I admire, such as L.M. Montgomery, and about places I love (especially Nova Scotia and Alberta). I taught writing at Harvard University before I decided to come home to Nova Scotia to write full time.

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Youth and Experience

Youth and Experience

A new 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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