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Joy, senseless joy!
We've spent a year reading Jane Austen, together - let's celebrate!
Dec 14, 2025
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How to be a Leading Man
'Persuasion' and a picture of perfection
Dec 7, 2025
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Jane Austen is a Desi Muslim Auntie
Six questions for author Noreen Mughees about 'Persuasion', Muslim romance, and second-chance love
Nov 30, 2025
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Superfine
We're arguing about ships and chivalry and guys and gallantry. We're Romantic, weary, fed up, and 'superfine'. Our Great Jane Austen 250th read-along…
Nov 23, 2025
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Real housewives of Somersetshire
Mary Musgrove and Sophy Croft upend and deconstruct gender - and the Great Jane Austen Read-Along continues, with 'Persuasion'
Nov 16, 2025
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‘She was only Anne’
We’re reading the sad, soulful, and poetic story that is Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ - and we're reading it together, on the Great Jane Austen Read-Along
Nov 9, 2025
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'All the wonderful velocity of thought'
It's a happily-ever-after for 'Emma' - let's celebrate!
Oct 26, 2025
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We're in Box Hill hell
With 'schemes, and hopes, and connivance'. Friendship and misanthropy. Flirtations, fevers, and power plays. It's week 7 of 'Emma' in the Great Jane…
Oct 19, 2025
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Material girl
All hail Mrs. E. And, six questions and amazing answers with artist Georgie Castilla
Oct 12, 2025
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Listless, pointless, and dull in Highbury
Week five of Emma in the Great Jane Austen Read-Along
Oct 5, 2025
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The Read-Along Celebration Zooms
Curl up, grab a cuppa, give it a watch!
Oct 5, 2025
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Amiable men and gossip girls
What makes a good man in Jane Austen. And the Great Jane Austen Read-Along continues
Sep 28, 2025
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Mr. Knightley and Mr. Knightley
Brothers, sisters, perturbations, and perplexities in Highbury. It's week three of the Great Jane Austen Read-Along
Sep 21, 2025
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It's Emma's fault
She's the problem, it's her. And, thoughts on reading Jane Austen in a divisive world.
Sep 14, 2025
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