...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories

Upon the reread of James Edward Austen Leigh's (JEAL's) 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen going on in Austen L and Janeites, even as we hav...

" A book intended for children, A Pretty Little Pocket Book, mentions a game for children in which they struck a ball and ran around ba...

I am so glad the question was asked about the seniority of JA’s reference to Catherine playing baseball in Northanger Abbey, because this is...

"I loved the article about the sport of tuft-hunting, and the cautionary letter from the obsequious Luke Lickspittle. Tufts were the go...

I received some interesting private responses to my message last week raising the question of whether there are still scholars out there who...

"There's an article by him about the benefits of studying history which seems to be without satire, and his love of "the muse ...

Someone posted the following in an online Jane Austen discussion, in response to a question I asked about an event I had heard about in whic...