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Tag Archives: Prince Edward Island

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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A Visit to Green Gables

July 28, 2017

I went to Prince Edward Island last weekend and visited Green Gables for the first time in a few years. …

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An Invitation to Read The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery

May 26, 2017

I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s 1926 novel The Blue Castle this fall. Would anyone like to join me? When …

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“She knew that a hard struggle was before her”: Emily’s Quest

April 21, 2017

At the beginning of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily’s Quest (1927), Emily Starr has “very clear-cut ideas of what she was going …

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Rereading L.M. Montgomery’s “Emily” Novels

January 30, 2017

I’m planning to reread L.M. Montgomery’s “Emily” novels this year, along with Naomi of Consumed by Ink and other bloggers. …

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Spring in Rainbow Valley

May 11, 2016

I spent last weekend in Prince Edward Island and one of the books I read was L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley, …

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October at Ingleside

October 16, 2015

“It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” I, too, am “glad I live …

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Anne Shirley’s Ambitions

August 28, 2015

I’ve always loved the image of the “bend in the road” that appears in the final chapter of L.M. Montgomery’s …

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“It’s good to be alive and to be going home”

August 14, 2015

In Anne of Green Gables, after a trip to Charlottetown, Anne and Diana return home to Avonlea along the north …

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Birthday “Coincidences” in Emma and Anne of Green Gables

June 23, 2015

Harriet Smith is delighted by the idea that Robert Martin’s birthday is just two weeks and a day before her …

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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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    Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” Meets the World
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    From Halifax to Vancouver and Home Again
  • A Visit to Green Gables
    A Visit to Green Gables
  • “I am important to myself”: Emily of New Moon
    “I am important to myself”: Emily of New Moon
  • Down to the Sea
    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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