literature
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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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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 