Down to the Sea
“… the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.” – Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Volume …
“… the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.” – Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Volume …
I loved finding Jane Austen’s Elinor Dashwood in Emma Straub’s novel Modern Lovers, just as I loved finding Marianne Dashwood …
Here are some of the pictures I took this summer in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. On …
Here are eight of my favourite blog posts, to mark the eighth anniversary of my blog: Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” …
“Valancy was in the midst of realities after a lifetime of unrealities,” writes L.M. Montgomery in her 1926 novel The …
I went to Prince Edward Island last weekend and visited Green Gables for the first time in a few years. …
Jane Austen died two hundred years ago this month, on July 18, 1817. Readers around the world are commemorating the …
Last Sunday, on a warm summer evening during the Jane Austen Society of the UK conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, …
Later this month, Sheila Johnson Kindred and I are giving a joint lecture for the Jane Austen Society, UK conference …
I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s 1926 novel The Blue Castle this fall. Would anyone like to join me? When …