“Quiet Observation” in Persuasion
“We have much to learn from the patient practice of quiet observation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion,” writes Natasha Duquette. I’m …
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Eight Years!
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
Such a Letter
Deborah Yaffe read Pride and Prejudice when she was ten and she’s been a passionate Jane Austen fan ever since. …
Thinking About Austen’s Writing of Persuasion
Many years ago, when I taught my very first English literature class and I put Pride and Prejudice on the …
Jane Austen At Work: The Revision of Persuasion’s Ending
Today’s guest post is by Judith Sears, a freelance writer specializing in marketing and corporate communications. A few of her …
Louisa, Fanny, and Sophy: Lives of Naval Wives
Sheila Johnson Kindred is the author of the first biography of Fanny Palmer Austen, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life …
Learning to Speak
“It sometimes seems as if I had no sooner learned to talk than I was doing it wrong,” writes Rohan …
Sir Walter Elliot: The Constant Reader
Susannah Fullerton has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for twenty-two years. She’s the author of Jane …
Frightening Henry Tilney’s Housekeeper Out of Her Wits
Kim Wilson is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with …
General Tilney, the Ogre of Northanger Abbey
“In an age when we are examining sexual predation and male power as never before, it may be revealing to …
Sarah Emsley 