Jane Austen and Adventure
Is Anne Elliot Jane Austen’s most adventurous heroine? This is the question Elisabeth Lenckos addresses in her guest post for …
Category Archives: Youth and Experience
Sir Walter Elliot Sleeps Through History
Bao Bui is a lecturer in the Department of History at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, and he …
“…a something ready for publication…” ~ The Publishing Journey of Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Deborah Barnum wrote about the publishing history of Northanger Abbey in December, at the beginning of my blog series “Youth …
The Vanity of Human Riches: A Conversation About Class and Wealth in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
In today’s guest post for “Youth and Experience,” Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman discuss both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. …
Eleanor and Isabella
Saniyya Gauhar, Mahlia S. Lone, and Laaleen Sukhera are members of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) and contributors …
Reading, Misreading, and the Plain Truth
Lyn Bennett is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University, and her most recent book is Rhetoric, Medicine, and …
Petitioning Beggars and Historical Whitewashing in Austen’s Financial Romance
Sara Malton is the author of Forgery in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde (2009), and …
Bless Me, Henry Tilney, for I Have Sinned
I was hoping Margaret C. Sullivan would write about Henry Tilney for my blog series celebrating 200 years of Northanger …
Riot!—what riot?
Judith Thompson contributed a guest post on the adoption plot of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for the blog series I …
Parental Tyranny and Filial Disobedience in Northanger Abbey
Theresa M. Kenney says she’s “an Austenite by accident”: “I fell in love with Austen after being pressured to read …
