Henry Tilney may not have been a typical clergyman, but he seems to have been modeled after the wittiest clergyman in England.
Sydney Smith: Model for Henry Tilney?
Category: Austen’s Novels
Mansfield Park and Klara and the Sun
Surprisingly, Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro, is similar in some ways to Mansfield Park.
Book Review: Jane Austen Cannot Marry, by May McGoldrick
Jane Austen Cannot Marry is a fun time travel romance.
Book Review: Mansfield Trilogy by Lona Manning
These entertaining variations on Mansfield Park add more history and new twists to the story.
Sermons by Jane Austen’s Family
What do we know about Jane Austen's father and brothers as clergyman? What did they preach about?
The Church in Jane Austen’s England
A final giveaway, and links to my guest posts on the church in Jane Austen's England and excerpts from Fashionable Goodness.
Fashionable Goodness Launches! Blog Tour with Giveaways
At long last, Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen's England, launches!
Jane Austen’s Cultural World
Cultural Universals show different facets of life in Austen's England.
Whately’s Review of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, 1821
An early review of Mansfield Park and other novels shows Austen's Christian perspective, giving lessons by natural, entertaining, moral examples and not by preaching.
Persuasion 2022 Movie on Netflix: Anne with a Rabbit
The new Netflix version of Persuasions: hilarious but far from Austen
Faith, Science, Joy, and Jane Austen 