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Tag Archives: L.M. Montgomery

The Last Phone Booth

March 10, 2023

When I read about the “world’s smallest Austen museum” in a red telephone box in Steventon, Hampshire, in a recent …

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“Oh, novels! What would I do without you?”

March 3, 2023

Let’s read Jane of Lantern Hill! Thanks to everyone who commented—here, on social media, in letters and emails, and in …

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Reading L.M. Montgomery Together

February 24, 2023

Would you like to read one (or two) of L.M. Montgomery’s novels with my friend Naomi and me? As I …

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Summer

August 31, 2018

Here are some of the pictures I took this summer in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On …

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Eight Years!

July 29, 2018

Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …

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L.M. Montgomery’s Halifax: A Literary Soirée, June 18th

June 4, 2018

L.M. Montgomery lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when she was a student at Dalhousie University in 1895-96 and then when …

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“Born again”: Valancy’s Journey from False Religion to True Faith

December 15, 2017

Here’s one more post on L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle before my new blog series on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey …

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Valancy Stirling’s Inner Life

November 10, 2017

My sister Bethie Baxter objects to my criticism of Valancy Stirling’s lack of ambition. She read the blog post I …

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“Going in for realities” in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle

November 3, 2017

“Valancy was in the midst of realities after a lifetime of unrealities,” writes L.M. Montgomery in her 1926 novel The …

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Searching for Maud in the “Emily” Series

August 4, 2017

It’s a pleasure to introduce Melanie J. Fishbane’s guest post on L.M. Montgomery’s journals and her “Emily” books. Melanie is …

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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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    “I am important to myself”: Emily of New Moon
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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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