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Down to the Sea

July 19, 2019

“… the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.” – Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Volume …

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Such a Letter

June 29, 2018

Deborah Yaffe read Pride and Prejudice when she was ten and she’s been a passionate Jane Austen fan ever since. …

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Thinking About Austen’s Writing of Persuasion

June 27, 2018

Many years ago, when I taught my very first English literature class and I put Pride and Prejudice on the …

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Jane Austen At Work: The Revision of Persuasion’s Ending

June 25, 2018

Today’s guest post is by Judith Sears, a freelance writer specializing in marketing and corporate communications. A few of her …

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Searching for Maud in the “Emily” Series

August 4, 2017

It’s a pleasure to introduce Melanie J. Fishbane’s guest post on L.M. Montgomery’s journals and her “Emily” books. Melanie is …

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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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First Impressions: Jane Austen’s radical female friendship

June 2, 2017

Congratulations to Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, whose book A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot …

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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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“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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“I have to write”: Emily Climbs

March 17, 2017

In L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Climbs (1925), one of the novels Emily Starr reads is The Children of the Abbey (1796), …

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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.

Top Posts & Pages

  • Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” Meets the World
    Jane Austen’s “Darling Child” Meets the World
  • From Halifax to Vancouver and Home Again
    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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