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Tag Archives: Nova Scotia

Places I Want to Remember

December 30, 2022

As the year ends, I can’t help but look back, and I’ve gathered a few of my favourite photos from …

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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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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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“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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Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen: Q & A with Sheila Johnson Kindred

October 27, 2017

Sheila Johnson Kindred’s biography of Fanny Palmer Austen was published earlier this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press, and she kindly …

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Blog Series Celebrating 200 Years of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

August 25, 2017

I’m organizing a blog series in honour of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and I need help with a …

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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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Austens in Halifax, Nova Scotia: A Walking Tour

July 14, 2017

Jane Austen died two hundred years ago this month, on July 18, 1817. Readers around the world are commemorating the …

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Reading Jane Austen’s Poems in the Halifax Public Gardens

June 30, 2017

Last Sunday, on a warm summer evening during the Jane Austen Society of the UK conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, …

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Austens in Bermuda and Nova Scotia

June 9, 2017

Later this month, Sheila Johnson Kindred and I are giving a joint lecture for the Jane Austen Society, UK conference …

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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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