Dear friends and readers, I’ve not given up or put away my review of the new Cambridge Finch volume altogether. I’ve been reading (for example) Gillian Wright’s Producing Women’s Poery, 1600-1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print: a study of women’s poetry as the texts appear in the manuscripts across this era. I’m going to […]
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Studying Manuscripts: from Anne Finch to Jane Austen
Posted in 18th century, 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, conference-paper report, early modern women, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, women artists, women's novels, womens lives, tagged foremother poet, letters, symbolic women, women's life-writing on May 25, 2022| 4 Comments »
Review of the Cambridge edition of Austen’s Later Manuscripts
Posted in Austen criticism, Austen's life, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austen sequels, jane austens letters, women's memoirs, tagged letters, literature, women's life-writing on November 20, 2012| 3 Comments »
Jane Austen writing — as imagined and drawn by Isabel Bishop (1902-88) Dear friends and readers, Doubtless you will remember how last spring, early and late I was examining the later manuscripts of Jane Austen (using diplomatic transcripts, the online Jane Austen manuscript site), reading about the study of manuscripts in and of itself, and […]
Austen’s unpublished writing: the manuscripts
Posted in Austen criticism, Austen film, Emma, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, women's art, tagged letters, linda bree, literature, women's life-writing on March 14, 2012| 10 Comments »
The 2nd volume is shorter than I cd wish — but the difference is not so much in reality as in look, there being a larger proportion of Narrative in that Part. (Austen, 29 January 1813) An attempt to present the manuscripts consistently to be read as works in their own right to a popular […]
Jane Austen and Anne Finch in Manuscript and Manuscript Culture today
Posted in 18th century poetry, Austen criticism, Austen film, female archetypes, feminism, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, women's memoirs, tagged letters, women's life-writing on October 23, 2022| 5 Comments »
Amanda Vickery expatiating on a group of 18th century letters and what they reveal Dear Friends and Readers, Last May I announced that I would be going (once again) to the East Central region meeting of the American 18th century Society and that a proposal for a paper I was going to write over the […]
More virtual conferences: Woolf & Burney & Austen & Houses: A Woman and her box; August plans ….
Posted in 18th century, Fanny Burney, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, historical-literary study, women's art, women's memoirs, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged Fanny Burney, Jane Austen at home, Lucy Worsley, Virginia Woolf on July 8, 2021| 20 Comments »
An eighteenth century trunk — probably more elegant than a woman’s typical “box” where she carried her things with her Virginia Woolf’s writing desk Dear friends and readers, I have been wanting to report two more virtual conferences I’ve attended online, both stimulating and about two women writers who are strongly connected to Austen’s work, […]
Online Jane Austen and the 18th century: virtual meetings, conferences, a review
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century poetry, Ann Radcliffe, Austen criticism, Austen's life, conference-paper report, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, women's art, tagged Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, published review on April 21, 2021| 3 Comments »
Admiral Crofts (John Woodvine) amused at the picture he describes to Anne Elliot (Amanda Root) in the window shop (1995 BBC Persuasion, scripted by Nick Dear) Dear friends and readers, Literally for months now the talks I’ve heard online in zoom lectures and conferences have been mounting up. My spirit quails before the hard and […]
On-line: “Her 1st & her last, Northanger Abbey & Sanditon” (Janet Todd) & “Jane Austen’s Feminism & Its Relevance to Girls Today” (Georgina Newton)
Posted in Andrew Davies, Austen criticism, Austen film, Austen's life, children's-girls' books, costume drama, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, jane austen novels, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sanditon, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, womens lives, tagged feminism, symbolic women, women's novels on July 7, 2020| 2 Comments »
Catherine (Felicity Jones) and Isabella Thorpe (Carey Mulligan) in the circulating library at Bath (2008 NA, scripted Andrew Davies Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) arriving near the sunny beach in Sanditon (2019 Sanditon, scripted by Andrew Davies, among others) I would bring together Janet Todd’s talk and Georgina Newton’s to suggest that it is a sort […]
Jane Austen & Anne Sharp: “She is an excellent kind friend”
Posted in 18th century, Austen criticism, Austen's life, Becoming Jane, biography, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, jane austens novels, jasna, literary biography, women's art, women's memoirs, women's novels, womens lives, tagged Fanny Austen Knight, Francis Austen, james edward austen leigh, letters, Martha Lloyd, women's life-writing on January 6, 2019| 3 Comments »
19th century drawing of imagined woman writer Friends, I’ve not created a chronology for an Austen relative or friend for quite a while, but I have one for you today: of the life of Anne Sharp (or Ann Sharpe — the names appear with and without the “e’s” in various sources). I’ve been reading Emily […]
Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen
Posted in Andrew Davies, Austen criticism, Austen film, Austen's life, female archetypes, heroines' texts, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, jane austen novels, jasna, Pride and Prejudice, women's art, women's films, women's novels, tagged published review, reviews on August 4, 2018| 1 Comment »
Dear friends and readers, Since I summarized Devoney Looser’s daring key-note address to the JASNA meeting held this past fall (2017) on this blog, “After Jane Austen,” I thought I’d add as appropriate my review of her book (upon or from which her speech was elaborated): This review has been published in The Eighteenth Century […]
Videos of A Song for Austen; an opera; those Magical time-travellers Constance & Ellen Hill
Posted in 18th century, Austen film, Austen Poetry, Austen's life, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, jasna, Sanditon, women's art, women's poetry, tagged Chris Brindle, Constance Hill, Devoney Looser, Ellen Hill, Fanny Austen Knight, james edward austen leigh, Lord Brabourne, women's life-writing on September 12, 2017| 12 Comments »
Deane House: a slightly antiqued reprint of Ellen Hill’s illustration Dear friends and readers, I assume none of us has forgotten this year’s 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, with its outpouring of books, meetings, events, including lectures, parades, dances. I wrote no less than three blogs, one on the books and reviews published on […]
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