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Puzzled

I love jigsaw puzzles. So much so that I only occasionally dare to start one, lest my addiction/obsession eat up every waking hour until...

Eternal verities

Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...

Giving credit where credit is due

Those of us who set ourselves up as arbiters of correctness in matters of Jane Austen quotation never run short of opportunities to...

Mutton and rhubarb

Jane Austen seems to have spent as little time as possible in the kitchen, leaving the cooking to the women she lived with and the...

From museum to house

Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...

Bewitching

Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...

What would Jane Austen say?

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance,” I texted my husband. I was not providing dampening commentary on our nearly...

Greatest Hits, Part II

As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...

Greatest Hits, Part I

The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...

Too darn hot

The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...

Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings

Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...

Printer error

Few expressions of Janeite commitment are as permanent -- not to mention as painful -- as the Jane Austen tattoo. Therefore, I’d have...