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Point Pleasant Park as a Cure for Homesickness

March 15, 2014

L.M. Montgomery went for a walk in Point Pleasant Park in the early evening of Saturday, March 15, 1902, feeling …

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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

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

Emma in the Snow

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

Essays

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

"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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An Invitation to Mansfield Park

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

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"I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way; And though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other." Jane Austen to James Stanier Clarke, 1 April 1816

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