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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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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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Bridgerton, Season 3, Part 2, Post 1–Polin
Well well well. Where to begin? Oh, how about the mirror scene? Nah, I’m gonna tease y’all and say a few other things first. Let me start by saying: SPOILERS for eps 4-8. That’s right. I have watched the last four episodes of Bridgerton, and I’m gonna refer to them. So, tread with caution, dear Read more
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Bridgerton, Season 3, Eps. 1-4 (part 1)
Here we are again. It’s Bridgerton time! If you haven’t watched seasons 1 and 2, you must do that before watching season 3. All episodes are streaming on Netflix. If you haven’t read my blog posts about those seasons, you can still do that. I blogged about each episode of season 1 separately: I blogged Read more
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Sense & Sensibility and the End of Loveuary
The end of Loveuary is upon us, and Hallmark’s final movie, Sense and Sensibility (SS), closes out our month of new Austen adaptations with a traditional period film set in the early 19th century and featuring all the things Janeites love to find in a film imitating Austen’s world: the clothing, the houses, the beautiful Read more
Misty Krueger 