Elinor and Marianne
I loved finding Jane Austen’s Elinor Dashwood in Emma Straub’s novel Modern Lovers, just as I loved finding Marianne Dashwood …
Tag Archives: autumn
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found”: Charlotte Smith in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
When latest Autumn spreads her evening veil, And the grey mists from these dim waves arise, I love to listen …
“Going in for realities” in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle
“Valancy was in the midst of realities after a lifetime of unrealities,” writes L.M. Montgomery in her 1926 novel The …
A Sense of an Ending: Persuasion and Keats’s “Ode to Autumn”
On this first day of autumn, it’s my pleasure to introduce a guest post on Jane Austen and John Keats …
On Not Skipping from September to November
Inspired by Christy Ann Conlin’s guest post on “The Sweet Exhilaration of Solitude,” I spent some time in the Halifax …
October at Ingleside
“It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” I, too, am “glad I live …
