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 …
Category Archives: Youth and Experience
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 …
Frightening Henry Tilney’s Housekeeper Out of Her Wits
Kim Wilson is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with …
General Tilney, the Ogre of Northanger Abbey
“In an age when we are examining sexual predation and male power as never before, it may be revealing to …
Coincidence in Persuasion
“Coincidence can be an important element in the novelist’s armoury, providing it is handled with discretion,” writes Maggie Lane in …
Anne Elliot’s Journeys of Body and Mind
Hazel Jones says she is “a confirmed Austen addict, having fallen in love with Henry Tilney at the age of …
What Women Most Desire: Anne Elliot’s Self-discovery
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember Maggie Arnold’s guest posts on Mansfield Park and …
Three Generations in Search of Anne Elliot
In 2014, when I hosted a celebration in honour of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Mary Lu Roffey Redden wrote a …
After the Fall
“Falls communicate something, if we are paying attention,” writes Carol J. Adams in today’s guest post on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. …
