Such a Letter
Deborah Yaffe read Pride and Prejudice when she was ten and she’s been a passionate Jane Austen fan ever since. …
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Austens in Bermuda and Nova Scotia
Later this month, Sheila Johnson Kindred and I are giving a joint lecture for the Jane Austen Society, UK conference …
Five Years!
Jane Austen’s letters, her novels Emma and Persuasion, the virtue of charity, the history of Nova Scotia, and the composition …
The Manipulations of Henry and Mary Crawford
Thirty-first in a series of posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. For more details, open Your Invitation to …
Writing with “dogged obstinacy”
In the summer of 1911, Edith Wharton was “digging away” at her “Big Novel,” The Custom of the Country, wondering …
Mr. Lushington and the Franfraddops
In the Spring issue of JASNA News (the Jane Austen Society of North America Newsletter), there’s a lovely piece by …
“My Long Jumble”
Recently I’ve been re-reading Jane Austen’s Letters (1995, edited by Deirdre Le Faye), and I’ve been collecting some of my …
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