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The Defense of Novels in Northanger Abbey

February 2, 2018

Leslie Nyman is the author of an historical novel, The Sound of Her Own Voice, which tells the story of …

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Why Did Jane Austen Abandon The Watsons?

May 5, 2017

It’s a pleasure to introduce this guest post by Kathleen A. Flynn on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons. Kathleen’s …

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The Republic of Love Bookmark and the Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth

November 1, 2016

“Just a love story, people say about a book they happen to be reading, to be caught reading. They smirk …

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Jane Austen and her Emma in Spanish

March 2, 2016

Cinthia Garcia Soria is a freelance translator (from English to Spanish) and she’s working towards a Master’s degree in Applied …

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Miss Bates in Fairy-land

February 26, 2016

Margaret C. Sullivan is the author of Jane Austen Cover to Cover and The Jane Austen Handbook. She wrote about …

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Why do readers object to the romance between Emma and Mr. Knightley?

February 24, 2016

Kirk Companion is a member of two Jane Austen book clubs in the Boston area, and for one of them, …

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Friendship, Transformation, and the Hope of Reconciliation

February 17, 2016

In 2014, when we were celebrating 200 years of Mansfield Park, Margaret Horwitz wrote about “The Comfort of Friendship” for …

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Emma Abroad

February 12, 2016

Gillian Dow is curating an exhibition focusing on “Jane Austen’s Emma at 200: From English Village to Global Appeal,” which will …

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Mrs. Woodhouse

February 10, 2016

George Justice is the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Jane Austen’s Emma (2011). He specializes in eighteenth-century literature …

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Mr. Woodhouse and What Matters in the End

February 5, 2016

Dr. Cheryl Kinney is a gynecologist in Dallas, Texas, and she has given lectures in the United States, Canada, and …

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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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