Bookmark with a photo of the book cover of Wild for Austen, with Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton, England in the background.
Thrilled that the audiobook of #WildforAusten (out Sept. 2nd) will be narrated by award-winning Marisa Calin! Calin's voice is enchanting & mellifluous, with just the right amount of humor & sass. Grateful this #JaneAusten book has such a perfect-fit narrator.
It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.
Some homophones are also HOMO-phones, as in
bear (big hairy gay man)
What is left out of our understanding of Britain's most iconic writers? Our friend @kerriarsenault.bsky.social reviewed THE TREMBLING HAND for the @bostonglobe.com books section -- the review is up now and will appear in the print section on Sunday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/a...
She’s right!
Advance copy of Wild for Austen. Purple and pink book out September, 2026.
I’m assigning this to my Austen seminar for lots of reason including Devoney’s work on Austen and abolition. It’s also a wonderful model for how to write TO the public about cultural history and archival research.
Pink and purple book cover. Austen winks. Title: Wild for Austen.
We are very excited about
Wild for Austen.
Witty, incisive, readable, and a model of public scholarship.
Pre-order!!!
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1816 Mansfield Park w/Bigger6 mug…in progress edition by the editor of Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey
No one who had ever seen @triciamatthew.bsky.social in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an Austen editor…
And yet…
I can say with some confidence that the production company did definitely know this. Because I spent more than an hour, at their invitation, telling them about it.
"These objects also express larger ideas about the concept of race, romantic notions of distant lands, the harsh realities of slave labor in the colonies, the presence of Black servants in wealthy European households, and the culture of luxury consumption." 🗃️
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Thrilled about this!
A glass case containing three, leather-bound volumes of Mansfield Park. Above it hands a banner which contains a quotation from the novel in which Fanny Price’s question to her uncle about the traffic in enslaved peoples is met with a dead silence.
On 9 May 1814, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park was published. The novel plays an important role in our Austen and Turner exhibition @harewoodhouse where we place it in conversation with abolitionist works by Olaudah Equiano and William Cowper and Turner’s Slave Ship. #austenandturner
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773425...
I can’t quite believe I did this…surreal.
Available September 2025.
Pride and Prejudice
thread
#KSAAEvents: "The Spirit of the Universal Emancipation." March 31, Sarah Marsh & Imani Tucker explore the role of the more- or less-than human in Romantic-era writing (vampires, Prometheus, or the cosmos of Benjamin Banneker).
💻🔗 Sign up for this virtual event here: www.k-saa.org/events/the-s...
So important to support work that preserves and reflects on history….especially in these times.
Talk Announcement: March 18th Georgetown University 4:30 PM Old North 205
We are pleased to announce this year's new titles, stunning covers by Jaya Nicely, AND the 2025 S&T Classics YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! 🎉
Six newly revisited classics in conversation sent straight to your doorstep all year: spring, summer, fall. Only at unnamedpress.com
March 18, 2025, 4:30pm Old North 205 Provisional Benevolence: Gender and Plantation Landscapes a lecture by Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University reception to follow sponsored by the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies, and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative
march 18th at georgetown
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
“Fanny Price smolders in this cousins-to-lovers romance while a rake tries to penetrate her…heart.”
There’s still time to join the Clarissa-in-real-time Substack! Introductions today. Lurkers welcome. #clarissa2025
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
The image shows a newspaper clipping about Kitty Thomson, the subject of the blog post.
"When we examine the faded words we cannot fail to see the violent power of White enslavers in faded black ink on yellowed paper, but it is Kitty Thomson’s fierce independence and resistance that echoes loudest across the centuries." Simon P. Newman, Brown 2026 Fellow
jcblibrary.org/news/resisti...
The image contains the words "Lignum vitae" and "Courtesy of Americana" along with a drawing of a plant with blue flowers on it.
There is always something new to browse in Americana, the JCB's digital platform. Today we found this engraving of Lignum vitae, the national flower of Jamaica.
Part of
Byam, Lydia, fl. 1797-1800
A collection of exotics...
[London] D797 B993 /3-SIZE
americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...
Pride and Prejudice was published today in 1813.
The Jane Austen House embraces Austen’s complex legacy.
Some highlights from May 2024 visit:
Map of Antigua
Clarkson on Abolition
THE writing desk
Tea and a cupcake…always.
