Happy #WhanThatAprilleDay! We are have shoures soote here in Pennsylvania.

Jane Austen at 250 - Pittsburgh Review of Books The year 2025 has been devoted to the novelist Jane Austen because of her quarter-of-a-millennium birthday anniversary on December 16. Academics have been

Happy birthday, Jane Austen, born on this day in 1775. I was pleased to be invited to write this piece pghrev.com/jane-austen-... for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social

Having a great time at #JASNAAGM in Baltimore, MD. Wish you were here.

Int inside of the book on the right hand side is an black and white illustration of owls

The front cover of the book on a grey background. The cover has a blue nuthatch on it with a nut in its beak

Happy publication day to Jenny Uglow and the team at @faberbooks.bsky.social!
Available from all good book shops including ours!

One of the great days at Global Jane Austen.

Be an early arrival at JASNA and enjoy themed cocktails and hear us talk a bit about the 1940 Olivier-Garson P&P film, which I first saw when packing for my first year at college (the next night, I finished my packing to the 1952 film of The Importance of Being Earnest). jasna.org/agms/baltimo...

Wallace, not Gromit, did the shopping.

Happy #WhanThatAprilleDay!

I found I have to add "find a physical book" to my freshman comp class's Quests when we start the unit on research.

Have forwarded this to a friend.

UK pizzas that have stuck in my mind: "tuna and sweet corn" and "Peking Duck."

Pratchett's Hogfather.

Where do you source your pulp? (I once tried dryer lint--interesting but not recommended.)

Yes, glad you realized it might not be just a virus. (But, yes, a weird insight into another world, isn't it?)

Good news.

Arg, arg.

My Renaissance Poetry students made commonplace books today. Next task: write in them.

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I took my very first grad course with him--The Younger Romantics.

Now you have me thinking of Mme Defarge and her knitting.

I will remember that next year, the online option.

Great photo!

Granny Smith was the one I learned about when I started grad school. Very exotic. Oh, the McIntosh was common in New England, but not what anyone bought in the DC suburbs. I discovered them in college.

There was also the Golden Delicous apple.

Second attempt "dilly dally" seems more appropriate.

"Rampage" for me.

This gets it just right.

A sampling of events for #Austen250.

I love this. Will adapt for my course on early 17th C poetry, but I may have to call it "the Mermaid tavern" instead. Thanks for sharing.