Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...

Two months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...

A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...

Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...

Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...

For most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of...

These days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...

It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...

We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels can be enjoyed at any age, albeit in different ways, and seldom has a week’s news brought...

A year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...

For college professors, accustomed to lecturing to captive audiences of sometimes disengaged undergraduates, it’s a badge of honor to...

"You have some news to hear, now you are come back, that will rather surprise you." "Have I?" said he quietly, and looking at her; "of...