A stairwell in a Bath boarding house
Dear friends and readers,
I mentioned early in the winter that I was going to teach a course on Jane Austen’s first three published novels for the American University Oscher Lifelong Learning Institute. Well it begins in two weeks! March 6th, to be precise. I’ve decided for the convenience of the students to put my syllabus on my website.
Students in the course coming over to this blog should note that I shall have to cancel one week’s meeting in March (in order to go to an 18th century conference at Williamsburg) and that we will see excerpts from three films.
Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood writing to her mother
Ellen
Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two 
Lucky students, I say.
Clare
I hope they will think so.
Well they’re crazy, if they don’t.