It’s here at last: The final month of this Austen 250 year—which just happens to be the very month in which we will commemorate Jane Austen’s 250 th  birthday. As we march inexorably towards the great day of December 16, the pace of celebratory events is hardly slackening—quite the contrary, in fact.   Case in point: Over the next two weeks, at least eleven libraries (public, academic, or research-focused) in England and the US have Austen 250 events planned—tea parties, movi

Ten years ago this weekend, I published my first blog post—the first of many, as it turned out. (Today’s entry is #1,049, if you’re...

Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...

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...

Six summers ago, a faux trailer for a non-existent film titled Jane Austen’s Fight Club went viral, with its hilarious juxtaposition of...

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...

I spent this past week participating in a most enjoyable Group Read of Among the Janeites at the Republic of Pemberley (it's now...

Keith Sharon, an old friend and colleague from our days at the Jersey City newspaper, mentions Among the Janeites in an Orange County...

January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...