The Happy Endings of Mansfield Park

December 26, 2014

Thirty-ninth, and last, in a series of guest posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. For more details, open …

Planning the Mansfield Park Party

February 13, 2014

Friday, May 9th is the big day for the launch of my series of guest posts celebrating 200 years of Mansfield …

January 1, 2014

“About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate …

October 28, 2013

Well, what a great weekend we’ve just had here in Halifax, with Elaine Bander, President of JASNA Canada, in town. …

November 16, 2012

When USS Constitution captured and burned HMS Guerriere in 1812, Lady Sherbrooke, wife of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, …

September 29, 2012

Anna Quindlen, Cornel West, Sandy Lerner, Maggie Lane, Elaine Bander, Juliet McMaster, Susan Allen Ford, Marcia McClintock Folsom, and many …