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Jane Austen Bingo!
In 2020, I organized my first Jane Austen Bingo event. It was Covid days, and I was teaching a synchronous Zoom course on Austen. I wanted to find fun ways to build community online. I learned about Jane Austen Bingo at the 2020 Jane Austen Society of American meeting, which had to move online, too. Read more
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A Flock of Seagulls
So I wrote a poem spontaneously because I was inspired by what I saw today as I sat in my Panera office. A Flock of Seagulls Why do seagulls Like parking lots Of retail stores Hundreds of miles from the sea? It’s not uncommon To see one or two Hovering over Walmart or Target, But Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 12
Every vacation has to end, but the last day–even as short as ours was–need not be a waste of fun. Even your travel home day can be full of adventure. I say this with a mix of positivity and sarcasm. Our last day began at 4 a.m. We had to be ready by 4:45 a.m. Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 11
The last full day of my England summer trip began at Lyme Regis with fossil hunting and almost being swept out to sea by the tide. Once we avoided that near disaster, we bought a few items at the museum gift shop, had some breakfast, and headed back to our adorable flat. We stayed at Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 10-part 2 Day 11-part 1
Fossil hunting on the Jurassic Coast deserves its own post. Maybe this activity doesn’t mean as much to people who grew up in England as it does to someone who grew up in the middle of south Texas. I don’t know. For me, it’s a big freakin’ deal. The fossils people find at Lyme Regis Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 10-Part 1
A love for Jane Austen is a good enough reason to visit Lyme Regis. The coastal town plays a prominent role in Persuasion. It is a place Austen visited more than once more than ten years prior to writing the novel. It gives you a sense of the kinds of seaside resort towns Austen mocked Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 9
I’m excited to share with you that I crossed an item off of my Jane Austen bucket list on July 14. I went to The Cobb (a breakwater) in Lyme Regis–the site of a scene from Austen’s novel, Persuasion. Before I tell you about this scene, please watch this montage of scenes from various adaptations. Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 8
Day 8 of the trip was a very special day for me. It was the day I got to tour 8 College Street in Winchester. (See the pics below.) It’s the flat where Jane Austen lived during the last months of her life while she was undergoing treatment for a mysterious illness (possibly Addison’s Disease, Read more
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England Summer 2025, Days 4-9 minus 1
There are definitely too many numerals in the title of this blog post. 2025 is fine. Days 4 through 9 would be fine. But minus 1? This blog is going to cover our departure from London on day 4 of the trip and our time staying at Southampton, which we left on day 9. However, Read more
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England Summer 2025, Day 3
I knew that this third day of our trip would need to be something that excited Kensington. No boring art galleries. No niche historical stuff only interesting to me. A bridge with towers you can climb and then walk across glass while hovering over the actual bridge with cars and buses and people–yes! A famous Read more
Misty Krueger 