In early 2014, an argument about the relationship between Jane Austen and her celebrated contemporary will appear in “Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives,” a collection of essays edited by William McCarthy and Olivia Murphy and published by Bucknell University. I’ll contribute to a symposium in Sydney on the four remarkable novels of 1814, Mansfield Park, Patronage, The Wanderer, and Waverley, talk to the […]

2013 was an exciting year. In June, I spoke about Jane Austen’s satire at a conference on eighteenth-century women writers, held to mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of Chawton House Library. In October, I gave a curtain-raiser” at JASNA in Minneapolis, entitled “Introducing the Real Elizabeth Bennet.” It was delightful to see so […]