Category: Northanger Abbey
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They Would Not Have Said That! Words that Didn’t Exist in the Regency Era
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Fresh Thoughts on the 2024 AGM
It is ever so difficult to characterize an annual general meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA). There are so many different elements—local tours, specialty events, sometimes a major evening event, the plenary speeches open to all attendees. Multiple breakout sessions go simultaneously for two days so that no one person…
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A Match For Margaret Dashwood, Part 3
Hello again! I’m back with the next section of my work-in-progress, an epistolary novella with characters from Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey! If you missed the first two parts (or need to refresh your memory on what’s going on), you can read the previous sections here. * * * * * * *…
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Military Owes Jane; Janeites Owe Military
Last month, we explored the way the Napoleonic Wars affected Jane Austen’s family and how her novels were viewed by readers during the world wars of the twentieth century. This month, we’ll drill a little deeper and go a little wider. Austen’s novels might be said to have participated directly in World War II. Some…
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Jane Austen Graphed
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Cover Reveal for Austen’s Creative Development
I’m pleased to announce today the cover reveal for my new book on Jane Austen’s creative process and her development as a writer. The nonfiction book, Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in a “Style Entirely New,” can also be pre-ordered now from Jane Austen Books. It will be available in…
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How Jane Austen Uses Names
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The Centrality of Self-Knowledge in Austen, a Guest Post from Pamela Aidan
The importance of self-knowledge or self-discovery in Jane Austen’s novels is not likely to be contested as it is a feature, perhaps THE feature that appears in all of them to one degree or another. My personal favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, has as its hinge the incident of Darcy’s ill-fated proposal at Rosings which…
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Austenesque Fathers
My father in law passed away exactly a month ago today, following years of declining health and increasing discomfort and pain. He was a good man who loved his family, someone I considered a “quiet hero.” He did his best to support his family day after day, without theatrics or demands for recognition, and he…