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Dec 16, 20243 min read
Holiday Traditions with Jane Austen
Holiday traditions in Jane Austen’s time were quite different from our own. Christmas trees didn’t become common place until the...
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Oct 29, 20245 min read
Following the Footsteps of Jane Austen
Fans of Jane Austen, those who read her stories and those who write stories in homage to her canon, are all students of human nature...
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Oct 15, 20246 min read
Jane Austen’s Legacy of Charmers +1
(Note to readers: This post has been amended to include Henry Crawford.) Enter Henry Tilney when ingenue Catherine Moreland attends her...
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Sep 10, 20249 min read
Jane Austen’s Happily Ever Afters
Jane Austen fans are romantics at heart. We read her novels for many reasons, her subtle wit and amusing observations, her...
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Jul 10, 20247 min read
Jane Austen and the Fine Art of Teasing
Among Jane Austen’s most beloved qualities are her sense of humor, subtle wit, and penchant for teasing. We find evidence of it in her...
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Apr 16, 20246 min read
Jane Austen’s Best Loved Influencers
In the Austen canon, lesser-known characters can play pivotal roles in her stories, affecting outcomes or creating diversions; some by...
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Mar 26, 20249 min read
Jane Austen Understands Social Anxiety
Not everyone is an extrovert in this world; self-confident, genial, at ease with new acquaintances or in new settings. Some of us are...
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Feb 20, 20244 min read
Was Jane Austen a Closet Abolitionist?
What may we imply from the writings of Jane Austen regarding her feelings about slavery since, like many global events during her...
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Jan 30, 20248 min read
Jane Austen Knows Narcissists
Love them or hate them, considering the many narcissistic characters Jane Austen introduces in her novels, one speculates whether she was...
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Dec 6, 20237 min read
The Enigma of Jane Austen’s Clergy
Her family was deeply entrenched in “the living”; her father was a fellow at Oxford College when he met her mother, Cassandra Leigh, who was
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Oct 16, 20237 min read
Jane Austen’s Best Frenemies
Jane Austen was a master of social commentary and observer of human foibles. Her stories are made even more absorbing by the introduction o
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Sep 18, 20236 min read
Jane Austen and Her Soul Sister
How unique was Jane Austen’s relationship with her beloved sister? I have a sister with whom I shared a room throughout childhood but...
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Aug 8, 20238 min read
Jane Austen’s Fathers
What would a father in a patriarchal society spanning both Georgian and Regency periods think of a daughter whose core ambition was to...
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Jul 11, 202310 min read
Jane Austen’s Mothers
I know I’m not alone in wondering about the relationship between Jane Austen and her mother. As evidenced by the mother figures depicted...
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Jun 6, 20236 min read
Guilty of Duplicity
I’m intrigued by the development of Jane Austen as a writer and how she came to conjure the rogues, scoundrels, and guileful creatures that
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May 9, 20235 min read
Character Assassination by Famous Authors
I was both delighted and dismayed to see the news that the late, great author, Hilary Mantel, was working on a mash-up of Jane Austen’s...
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Mar 29, 20234 min read
A Most Memorable Journey to Chawton
My career in digital marketing for a Fortune 500 company provided me many opportunities to travel to London which allowed me to...
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