I recently encountered someone who read the following excerpt in a very different way than I always have. When Anne Elliot meets Admiral Cro...

I think my darling baby girl might be turning into Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Lady Catherine, we can safely assume, was a baby once, and whil...

"If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to -- Dear Miss Morland, consider the dre...

It has been a sick week in my house. First the baby had a fever, then a cold, and while I caught the fever, my husband caught the cold. We a...

The "three or four families in a country village" which Jane Austen chose to focus upon did not allow her scope to include the gra...

Two more Jane Austen Made Me Do It reviews, both by well-established Austen writers. The two stories looked at side by side reveal the extr...

Read Part One and Part Two The first month of their marriage was spent by Edward and Elinor with Colonel Brandon at the Mansion-house, ...