The Last Phone Booth
When I read about the “world’s smallest Austen museum” in a red telephone box in Steventon, Hampshire, in a recent …
When I read about the “world’s smallest Austen museum” in a red telephone box in Steventon, Hampshire, in a recent …
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
“She’ll feel awful bad if her flowers get frosted, especially them dahlias. Octavia sets such store by her dahlias.” In …
Lady Catherine insists to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice that she must not think she will ever improve her …
Jane Austen’s letters, her novels Emma and Persuasion, the virtue of charity, the history of Nova Scotia, and the composition …
Today is the 101st anniversary of the publication of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. She called it her …
“A girl came out of lawyer Royall’s house, at the end of one street of North Dormer, and stood on …
It was Helen Pinkerton who introduced me to Edith Wharton, and in honour of Wharton’s birthday today I’d like to …
I’m really excited about discussing Mansfield Park with all of you this year – so excited that I can’t wait …
Tenth and last in a series celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom of the Country. “I have …