Attending Redmond College with Anne Shirley
“It was not exhilarating to be surrounded by crowds of strangers, most of whom had a rather alien appearance, as …
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Halifax, Nova Scotia in L.M. Montgomery’s Island Scrapbooks
L.M. Montgomery included many references to her time in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the “Island Scrapbooks” she created. I read …
Anne of Green Gables in Kingsport/Halifax
When I read Anne of the Island, the third of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne” books, as a child, I was living …
Elaine Bander in Halifax; Mansfield Park in Montréal
Well, what a great weekend we’ve just had here in Halifax, with Elaine Bander, President of JASNA Canada, in town. …
Elaine Bander’s talk on Mansfield Park – this Friday!
How wonderful for Halifax that Elaine Bander is coming here to give a talk on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park at …
Happy 10th Anniversary to The New Compass!
Ten years ago today, the first issue of the online literary journal I co-founded and co-edited with my friend and …
“The Multiple Authorship of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (2007)”
David Monaghan, Professor Emeritus at Mount Saint Vincent University and author of The Cinematic Jane Austen (2009), will give a talk …
L.M. Montgomery, Edith Wharton, and Education
Last summer, during a long visit to Prince Edward Island, I read the first volume of L.M. Montgomery’s Selected Journals …
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