When you need more (about) Jane Austen...

On this page, I've collected together links to
some of my writings about Jane Austen which
have appeared elsewhere,
and shared of my favourite online
Jane Austen resources.

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Is this a portrait of Jane Austen?

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Favourite Jane Austen podcasts:

• First Impressions: why all the Austen haters are wrong
  

• ​​What Would Jane Do?  by author Julia Golding

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Other podcasts which discuss Jane Austen:

• ​​Close Reads discussion of​ Sense & Sensibility  
• ​Close Reads discussion of Pride & Prejudice​

• BBC arts programme featuring  John Mullan discussing Emma

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Can't get enough of Fanny Price? Or can't figure out why Austen created such an apparently meek heroine?

• An insightful article by Prof. Mary Waldron
• Professor John Mullan on Fanny Price
• This article by CS Lewis is copyright protected, but really worth finding.
• A long but heartfelt reflectionlareviewofbooks.org/article/simple-girl-improbable-solace-mansfield-p on the solace offered by reading (and re-reading) Mansfield Park
  

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Reading with Austen: A digital re-creation of the library at her
​wealthy brother's estate at Godmersham Park

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Write like Austen is a website which will let you know which words Jane Austen used. For example, she never used the words "mayhap" or "steed."​

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Was Jane Austen a Secret Radical? I say "No." 

Read my blog series about Dr. Helena Kelly's
Jane Austen: The Secret Radical 

On-line Articles
"A Dangerous Intimacy" -- why was it so objectionable for the young people to stage a play at Mansfield Park?

My article about the French emigres who fled to England
​          during the French Revolution
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My article about Mansfield Park and "conduct novels"

My take on Penelope Clay and how I wrote the story about her for Rational Creatures

The Loneliness of the long-distance Austen heroine. 

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The great Fanny Price vs Mary Crawford
debate of 2017 with author Kyra Kramer
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Part One is here at JustJane1813
Part Two is here at Diary of an Eccentric
Part Three is here at  Savvy Verse and Wit
​Part Four is here at My Jane Austen Book Club
Part Five is here at Austenesque Reviews

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You don't want to miss my parody literary fiction review generator, published at The Rambling:
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Is the novel a "hauntingly observed meditation" or a "delicately textured exploration"? Use the Literary Fiction review generator!

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