Rereading Persuasion, Part 2
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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Down to the Sea
“… the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.” – Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Volume …
“Quiet Observation” in Persuasion
“We have much to learn from the patient practice of quiet observation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion,” writes Natasha Duquette. I’m …
Such a Letter
Deborah Yaffe read Pride and Prejudice when she was ten and she’s been a passionate Jane Austen fan ever since. …
Thinking About Austen’s Writing of Persuasion
Many years ago, when I taught my very first English literature class and I put Pride and Prejudice on the …
Jane Austen At Work: The Revision of Persuasion’s Ending
Today’s guest post is by Judith Sears, a freelance writer specializing in marketing and corporate communications. A few of her …
Louisa, Fanny, and Sophy: Lives of Naval Wives
Sheila Johnson Kindred is the author of the first biography of Fanny Palmer Austen, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life …
Learning to Speak
“It sometimes seems as if I had no sooner learned to talk than I was doing it wrong,” writes Rohan …
Sir Walter Elliot: The Constant Reader
Susannah Fullerton has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for twenty-two years. She’s the author of Jane …
Coincidence in Persuasion
“Coincidence can be an important element in the novelist’s armoury, providing it is handled with discretion,” writes Maggie Lane in …
Sarah Emsley 