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Tag Archives: food

Frightening Henry Tilney’s Housekeeper Out of Her Wits

June 15, 2018

Kim Wilson is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with …

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Of French Cooks and Hobs – A Pride and Prejudice Menu

June 17, 2016

I’m pleased to introduce a guest post from Erna Buffie on food in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Erna’s first novel, …

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The Best Fruit in England

March 4, 2016

Carol Chernega worked in the garden at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton in the summer of 2005 when she …

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Why Mr. Woodhouse Takes Care About What His Guests Eat

January 8, 2016

Catherine Morley describes her research as the study of “people and their relationships with and through food.” Like Dan Macey, …

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Discovering Mutton in Emma: The Quest to Please the Principals’ Palates

January 6, 2016

Today’s guest post for Emma in the Snow includes three recipes created by Dan Macey of Dantasticfood, and thus we …

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Tantrums and Toasted Cheese: On Saying NO to Boys of All Ages

December 12, 2014

Thirty-second in a series of posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. For more details, open Your Invitation to …

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Tea with JASNA Nova Scotia

October 28, 2014

The next JASNA Nova Scotia meeting will be on Sunday, November 9th, at 2 p.m., when we’ll meet in Halifax …

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Dr. Grant’s Green Goose

July 18, 2014

Before I introduce today’s guest post, I want to note that this is the anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. She …

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Jane Austen is as Cool as a Cream Cheese

March 6, 2014

Jane Austen rarely uses similes or metaphors, but when she does, they’re memorable ones. In Jane Austen and Food, Maggie …

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Welcome!

I write about Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, L.M. Montgomery, and other writers I admire, and I’ve hosted a few online celebrations here in honour of the 200th anniversaries of Jane Austen’s novels. After completing my PhD in 19th century English literature at Dalhousie University, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and then I taught for a few years in the Writing Program at Harvard University. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and I’m currently working on a novel.

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Youth and Experience

Youth and Experience

A blog series celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Emma in the Snow

Emma in the Snow

Guest posts in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Emma.

Essays

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park

My essay “The Tragic Action of Mansfield Park" appears in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Mansfield Park.

Among the Proto-Janeites

"Among the Proto-Janeites: Reading Mansfield Park for Consolation in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1815" was published in Persuasions On-Line 35.1.

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    Down to the Sea

An Invitation to Mansfield Park

An Invitation to Mansfield Park

A series of guest posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

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