Caricatures of Christmas

Wishing you all a festive and worshipful Christmas!

The Stereotype of the Self-Indulgent Clergyman (Rowlandson’s Parsonage)

Thomas Rowlandson's satirical cartoon, The Parsonage, shows one stereotype of the clergy in Austen's England.

Jane Austen: A Companion, by Laura Dabundo

Laura Dabundo's new book, Jane Austen: A Companion, gives many insights into Austen and her world, including faith and science in that world.

Jane Austen: The Secret Radical

Helena Kelly's Jane Austen: The Secret Radical gives some startling possibilities for Austen's "secret meanings."

Jane Austen and the War of Ideas

Jane Austen's novels express the Christian moral principles of her time.

Celestial Persuasion by Mirta Ines Trupp

This prequel to Persuasion features a Jewish young lady who loves astronomy, and who travels to Argentina.

Book Review: Fanny, A Mansfield Park Story

What if Henry Crawford had "done as he ought"? How would Mansfield Park have turned out? Amelia Marie Logan explores this possibility in a delightful variation.

The Woman of Colour

The Woman of Colour tells us what life might have been like for a mixed-race heiress like Jane Austen's Miss Lambe of Sanditon.

Jane Austen’s Clergymen

A whole range of clergymen appear in Austen's novels. Were they mostly good or bad clergymen? How was each one unique?

The Joy of the Reticule

by Brenda S. Cox When Emma encountered Mrs. Elton visiting Jane Fairfax, “she saw [Mrs. Elton] with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side,”—Emma, Volume 3, chapter 16, Cambridge …