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Just back from Washington, where I presented “The Burneys, Jane Austen, and the Death of Captain Cook” to the Burney Society of North America, then enjoyed myself thoroughly at the JASNA AGM, listening to papers, seeing friends, and viewing “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Such treats!

“Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen” is now in press! For a couple of previews, see “Jane Austen, the Prince of Wales, and John Thorpe,” Persuasions 37 (2015), 94–105, and “Jane Austen and the Subscription List to Fanny Burney’s Camilla.” Persuasions On-line (2014),35:1.

Just back from a splendid symposium at UCLA in honour of Felicity Nussbaum, pioneering scholar of feminist, post-colonial, and disability studies for the eighteenth-century. Among the many plaudits from colleagues and friends were those from a panel of her bright-eyed, enthusiastic ex-graduate students, now all teachers and authors of their own research. It was most […]

Seeing that I’ve attended many of the American Eighteenth-Century Society annual meetings since 1972, it was a great joy to catch up with old and more recent friends the other day in an extraordinary Los Angeles glass tower, and tell them about Fanny Burney and Fanny Price. The field has expanded remarkably since the Society […]