Jane Austen in the age of Zoom
A year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America. The talk was planned for Philadelphia in early April. Needless to say, it didn’t happen, but organizers decided to reschedule for spring 2021. Because surely by then we’d be able to meet in person, right? Well, no. But rather than again pushing its event into the uncertain future, the Philly