Do you feel trapped right now? Maria Bertram also felt trapped, in Mansfield Park. What happened when she tried to escape?
Feeling Trapped: “‘I cannot get out,’ as the starling said,” in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Category: Austen’s Novels
Book Review: A Jane Austen Education
The man who wrote A Jane Austen Education shares some powerful life lessons he learned from Austen's novels.
Emma. Review of the 2020 Movie
The 2020 movie version of Emma is beautiful and fun to watch. Where does it differ from the novel and from the 1996 version?
Personality Types in Jane Austen: The Enneagram
The Enneagram is a traditional way to describe our motivations and ways we can grow. We find all the Enneagram types in Austen's novels.
Personality Types in Jane Austen (and Charlotte Bronte): The Highly Sensitive Person
Fanny Price, and Jane Eyre, are perfect examples of the "Highly Sensitive Person," or HSP.
Personality Types in Jane Austen: Myers-Briggs Types (MBTI) and Temperaments
Jane Austen's characters are alive for us. What are their Myers-Briggs types and temperaments?
Personality Types in Jane Austen: Introverts and Extroverts
Which of Jane Austen's characters are introverts, and which are extroverts? What is the difference?
Prayer and Praise: A Jane Austen Devotional
Shannon Winslow shares a devotional from her new book, Prayer and Praise: A Jane Austen Devotional.
Of Catholics, Riots, and the Theatre in Bath
Catholics in Jane Austen's England suffered many restrictions and sometimes even violence. In Bath, they eventually found a place to worship in the Old Orchard Street Theatre.
Jane Austen and the Reformation by Roger E. Moore: Review and Highlights
Jane Austen may have been looking back nostalgically to the Catholic monasteries of England when she wrote Northanger Abbey and other novels. Roger E. Moore describes the "sacred landscape" of England after the Reformation, and how it affected Austen.
Faith, Science, Joy, and Jane Austen 