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May 18, 2017

Recommended readings and a few Austen links

Hello, JASP-ers! It’s just a few weeks until we meet in North Carolina. We’ve added two supplemental readings to the site at the bottom...

May 17, 2017

Six times Jane Austen wrote about ships in her letters

Scorpion Dec. 24-26, 1798: Admiral Gambier in reply to my father’s application writes as follows. — “As it is usual to keep young...

Apr 12, 2017

When history and penmanship go hand in hand

With computers, tablets and cellphones, handwriting seems as if it’s becoming a lost art. Benjamin Bartgis is helping to keep it alive....

Mar 29, 2017

How two playwrights brought Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ to life

It’s one thing to read “Persuasion” and take in its themes and characters. It’s another to take those themes and characters and bring...

Mar 22, 2017

‘Persuasion’ playlists: What Anne and Frederick would listen to

What would Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth listen to if they existed today? We can only imagine…. Here are two Spotify playlist...

Mar 15, 2017

‘Persuasion’ throwbacks: What reviews said about these Jane Austen adaptations

We’ve all got our favorite “Persuasion” adaptation — or if you don’t yet, you might by the time you leave the Jane Austen Summer Program...

Mar 8, 2017

In her books, Jocelyn Harris examines Jane Austen — down to her ‘tiniest decisions'

“I’m always trying to catch Jane Austen in the act of creation,” says scholar Jocelyn Harris, who’s scheduled to give the keynote lecture...

Mar 1, 2017

Links roundup: Everything’s coming up Jane

Spring is almost here. If you’ve been hunkered down for the winter, here’s what you might have missed in Jane Austen news. So what if Mr....