Books
Patricia Matthew on Emma, fatal flaws, and "a white girl too far."
Humor
"Rain is a big influence": The Dashwoods' humble abode gets the Great House Therapy treatment.
Movies
Shuffling and rattling about the feet in Zombie slaying is extremely vulgar. This is not a Sailor’s Hornpipe.
Books
Constance Grady on the Jane Austen Centre and the Mr Darcy myth: "Popular culture has replaced Austen’s rude and awkward nerd with a dashing romantic hero."
Movies
Time to face some hard truths.
Books
Mansfield Park, basically.
Beauty
Hayley Inch and Stephanie Lai have returned to rewrite 'Emma' for Australians, and it is glorious -- if also incomprehensible to the rest of us.
Books
Texts From Fanny Dashwood and the rest of the gang of Sense and Sensibility.
Beauty
In which two Australians rewrite "Pride and Prejudice" for Aussies. It is utterly incomprehensible to the rest of us.
Beauty
Caroline Bingley: Bridezilla. Are you surprised?
Books
How to tell if you're currently in a Jane Austen novel.
Books
Sarah Seltzer examines the outcome of Lizzy Bennet and Lily Bart's lives, in terms of their patriarchal implications.
Books
An ongoing exploration of some lesser-known Jane Austen quotations that evil people could work into their daily lives and conversations.
Movies
Theresa Couchman compares two dueling filmic versions of Mr. Collins, the oiliest of Jane Austen's anti-heroes.
Texts From
Texts From Emma Woodhouse. Do you want to play whist??