LindaS

I read your paper and enjoyed it very much!

I would have been compelled to sneak in a yellow one.

That was quite a rabbit hole to go down! I'd wondered what the heck was going on at UVA.

Not to mention deflection from Charles's own troubling track record of associating with pedophiles like Savile...

Thank you -- I'm happy to see her monument for the first time.

Wow, talk about your unbecoming conjunctions

Just donated. Thanks for the reminder.

Not meeting the moment here. Very disappointed in Democrats' messaging at this crucial juncture.

Hooray, I have at last finished A Thing that has kept me chained to the computer (mostly unproductively) for a week. Taking a break for Bluesky therapy.

Very fetching boots

Stunning!

Archival Shouting – AHA Some collections of historical sources have been given a microphone, with profound consequences for the practices of history.

There are so many ways that archival collections and thus histories can be amplified or silenced --including digitization.

This was one of my efforts at describing how that works, and the implications. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Black and grey image of Jane Austen holding a pink Macbook.

Here is a list of upcoming Jane Austen and the Brontës virtual events scheduled for the next few months. There is a lot here from book clubs to movie nights & everything in between! Check the event websites for more information and details. 👉🏻 excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bro...

Here's a comment from one of our 2025 speakers. We welcome proposals from academics and non-, and look for a wide variety of topics -- just address one or both of the theme novels in some way.

CFP is here: jasna.org/conferences-...

#cfp Explore Austen's first-sold and last-composed novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, with the Jane Austen Society of North America. CFP closes November 30. #c18 #18thc #18thcentury #austen #janeausten

Call for Papers is here: jasna.org/conferences-...

(cont from above) BRANDON TAYLOR, novelist, essayist, and literary critic, who wrote the introduction to Vintage Classics' new edition of Persuasion
LIDIA CHANG, Historical musicologist, Assistant Professor at Colorado Collage
and special guest GILLIAN HORNBY, author of Miss Austen, Godmersham Park

Major speakers for 2026 are:
HAZEL JONES, author of Jane Austen's Journeys and Jane Austen and Marriage, and an expert on Bath as Jane Austen would have known it
DEVONEY LOOSER @devoney.bsky.social , Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, whose new book is Wild for Austen...(more)

Here's a comment from one of our 2025 speakers. We welcome proposals from academics and non-, and look for a wide variety of topics -- just address one or both of the theme novels in some way.

Logo for the 2026 Jane Austen Society of North America conference, with the theme Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

PLEASE SHARE: The Call for Papers for the 2026 JASNA AGM is open through Nov 30. The conference will be in Tucson, AZ, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2026, focusing on Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 1/4

A ballroom full of people line dancing. They’re currently doing a circle right, which is making all the gowns swish like a painting.

Timeline cleanse

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every Jane Austen event must be in want of a ball. #jasna #neatravels

Reflecting on the highlights of the Jane Austen Society of North America's "Austen at 250" conference in Baltimore: Paula Byrne's lead-off keynote, speakers from 9 countries, Austen's birthplace artifacts on display (first time in US!), 950 enthusiastic Austen admirers. On to 2026!