Places I Want to Remember
As the year ends, I can’t help but look back, and I’ve gathered a few of my favourite photos from …
Tag Archives: Nova Scotia
Summer
Here are some of the pictures I took this summer in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On …
L.M. Montgomery’s Halifax: A Literary Soirée, June 18th
L.M. Montgomery lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when she was a student at Dalhousie University in 1895-96 and then when …
“Going in for realities” in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle
“Valancy was in the midst of realities after a lifetime of unrealities,” writes L.M. Montgomery in her 1926 novel The …
Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen: Q & A with Sheila Johnson Kindred
Sheila Johnson Kindred’s biography of Fanny Palmer Austen was published earlier this month by McGill-Queen’s University Press, and she kindly …
Blog Series Celebrating 200 Years of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
I’m organizing a blog series in honour of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and I need help with a …
Searching for Maud in the “Emily” Series
It’s a pleasure to introduce Melanie J. Fishbane’s guest post on L.M. Montgomery’s journals and her “Emily” books. Melanie is …
Austens in Halifax, Nova Scotia: A Walking Tour
Jane Austen died two hundred years ago this month, on July 18, 1817. Readers around the world are commemorating the …
Reading Jane Austen’s Poems in the Halifax Public Gardens
Last Sunday, on a warm summer evening during the Jane Austen Society of the UK conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, …
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 …
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