Misty Krueger

So this is the end of my blogging about Masterpiece’s Sanditon because the finale has now been aired in the U.S. If you have not watched it, stop reading now! Spoilers ahead. I decided not to binge watch Sanditon this season. I watched week by week, and I wonder if I had watched episode 6…

Let me start by saying…I knew it! I knew Edward was marrying her for her inheritance. What surprised me is that he fessed up to it in front of Augusta’s uncle and Charlotte. Why do that? He could have gotten what he wanted–her money–but he made her hate him so that he could go home…

As the episode begins we find that Georgiana Lambe has been partying like it’s 1999. Yes, she won her case, but is this partying really a sign of celebration? Nah. I’m not too happy with how the writers are portraying Georgiana in this episode. I mean, it’s bad enough that she’s hanging out with Lord…

It’s the trial episode! The one we’ve all been waiting for! And it wasn’t even half of an episode? That was weird. I felt like the pacing was off for this major event, but I was delighted with the outcome, of course. I was surprised the judge so quickly agreed to give Georgiana her inheritance,…

A lot happened in this episode. No time to waste, right? It’s the final season. I have warmed up to Lord Henry Montrose. Well, I started warming up last episode, but in this one I’m definitely finding myself in fan territory. While we could say, hey, don’t use Georgiana to get your mom to quiet…

It’s the final season of a series “inspired by Jane Austen’s unfinished novel,” a show I have loved watching and blogging about. The first episode of the latest season did not disappoint in its continuation of season 2’s plot lines and twists and turns that became a part of the fun of watching this series.…

I’m giving a talk at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference on March 11 about a book bench from 2017 featuring an image of Phillis Wheatley Peters (though her name is not included on the bench). The bench was a part of the “Sitting with Jane Art Trail.” Want to know more? Come to…

On November 18, 2022, I gave a talk at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. Thanks to John Muthyala and Donna Anderson for the invite. No, I wasn’t there to talk about Jane Austen and monsters. Well, of course I found a way to talk about Austen, but…

This semester marks the 20-year anniversary of my first semester of teaching a class by myself. Before that I was a teaching assistant (from undergrad to grad school). So, as I type this post on Labor Day, I will share with you some thoughts on my academic labor. Just kidding. I’m going to talk about…

Usually I watch an episode twice before blogging. I didn’t want to watch the season finale again, so I waited almost a week before watching it again. So that I could cool down. In this blog post I will make a list of things I loved and hated about episode 6. Loved: Captain Fraser. I…