Back in my school days, we eager young grade-grubbers used to trade advice on which teachers marked harshly and which were more...

Genuinely good news – a commodity that’s been in short supply this past year – came our way earlier this month, with the announcement...

Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...

Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...

If you want a dulcet-toned Brit to read aloud to you from the works of Jane Austen, your options are many. The audiobook giant Audible...

It’s been more than three years since a trio of passionate Janeites formed the Godmersham Lost Sheep Society (GLOSS), an organization...

Some years ago – six? Ten? – I stumbled across a mention of an intriguing campaign to raise money for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, to...

At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...

Trendy fashion accessories come and go. One year, it’s thigh-high red boots and black berets; the next it’s purple shoes and tiny...

To read the news these days, you’d think that attics across the world were bursting with the previously unsuspected memorabilia of famous...

Back when I was in elementary school, ranking one’s friends – best friend, second-best friend, third-best friend – was a popular pastime....

Can I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...