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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton

Monday, July 6, 2026

New York City as a Wonderland for Children

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If you're in or near New York City this summer, I'd recommend you travel to the upper part of Museum Mile --1220 5th Avenue. That...
Friday, July 3, 2026

Many Happy Returns, Jane Austen

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Jane Austen candles Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 -- just over half a year before the country of my own birth - -the United Stat...
Thursday, July 2, 2026

How "The Other Bennet Sister" subverts narrative convention

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We've seen it countless times in romance films. The unassuming heroine who never thought of herself as a beauty gets a makeover that mak...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Valuing kindness above cleverness: Emma's lesson

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  This blanket is one of the hundreds of themed  products available at  Totally_Jane_Austen   Facebook brought this New Yorker  cartoon into...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

"The Other Bennet Sister" is Closer to Jane Eyre than Jane Austen

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O nce upon a time there was a girl born without the gift of beauty, grace, the pleasing manners of extroverts, or the prospect of a fortune....
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