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The People Who Saw George Bailey (Even When He Was Kind of a Jerk)

Christ Was Once This Little

This Christmas, I'm Not Doing Stuff (Guest Post by Lucy Huber)

The Holiday Gift Your Writer Friend Really, Really Wants This Year

Eleven Fun Christmas Facts For Small Talk at Parties

In Which I Recount My Adventures at the Jane Austen Conference

If Jane Austen Characters Attended Zoom Thanksgiving

If You’re the First Husband of a Plucky Pioneer Woman in a Hallmark Movie, You Should Be Deeply Afraid

Ten Rock-Solid, Argument-Proof Reasons Why I Have Not Replied to Your Email Yet

An Apologetic Letter From the Avonlea School Board to the Irate Parents of Gilbert Blythe

Reasons I Would Like to Give When Asked Why My Eighteen-Month-Old Isn't Talking Yet

How to Succeed as a Nineteenth-Century Novelist

In Defense of Pretentious Fifty-Cent Words

Doesn’t Anyone WANT to Earn $94 an Hour Working From Home?

Trendy Diet Plans from Classic Literature

Five Buckets of Nerdy Nostalgia (and Eighteen Rolls of Toilet Paper)

Edgar Allan Poe’s Deliberately Meta Writing Process for Maximum Spook

Here's Why Pride and Prejudice Will Never Translate Perfectly to the Screen

Anne of Green Gables: motherhood shaped by love and grief

It's! A! Giveaway!

I Went to the Seaside to Take a Rest, and Nary a Word Did I Write

"Help! I Asked For Parenting Advice Online and I Now Regret Everything!"

Jane Austen Refuses to Punch Down

If I Only Had (More Than) a Brain

We Did It, Jane

How "Jane of Austin" Helped This Elinor Connect With Marianne Dashwood

“Such I Was from One-and-Twenty to Nine-and-Twenty” (And Continue Still)

Mr. Bennet is a Terrible Dad

New to Jane Austen? Here's a Curated Reading List.

Good Novels and Intolerable Stupidity

Introducing The Summer of Jane Austen

The Best of April (and a little of March)

Ten Baby Activity Ideas, Developed By an Actual Baby

How Jane Austen Characters Would React to a Solar Eclipse

The Reclusive Ghostwriter Behind “Little Women” and “Anne of Green Gables”

How a Forgotten British Princess Became a Silent Film Star and Invented the Band-Aid

When Good Friday Doesn't Go My Way

Why Don't People Talk About Parenthood The Way I Want Them To?

On Behalf of All the Snakes in Ireland, I Demand an End to Cancel Culture

"Please Include a Bio of 200-300 Words"

The Best of February

Medium vs. Substack: Why You Should Do Both

Christmas Decorations, My Mount Everest

Netflix's "Persuasion" Missed the Jane-Austen-Adaptation Boat

The Best of January

I'd Rather Elevate the Good Than Play Whack-a-Mole With the Bad

A Reflection on Failing NaNoWriMo