My Jane Austen group is reading Persuasion - eleven years since we last did it - because 2017 is the 200th anniversary of its publication. Of course I've read it several times, so, as you'll know from my other Austen re-reads, my aim here is to focus on reflections from this read rather than to … Continue reading Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Vol. 1

A month ago I posted some musings arising from the first part of my current slow read of  Northanger Abbey with my Jane Austen group. In this post I'll share some reflections on the rest of the novel, Chapters 20 to 31, which is the part that encompasses our "heroine" Catherine's arrival in and departure from the Abbey. On the art of fiction … Continue reading Northanger Abbey musings (2)