As with a number of Jane Austen’s key novels, I love to read ‘Emma’ on a fairly regular basis. It is a bright and fun story, full of witty humor, and comes complete with a slight cautionary tale as well. Where she thought herself glowing with strengths, Emma learns her weaknesses, and gains wisdom through…

As a firm fan of the 5 hour BBC 1995 P&P miniseries, I went to this movie version with some skepticism, but found that it was much better than I expected even while it seemed to lack somewhat for me in some respects. THE P&P is hard to live up to! All in all though,…

In short, this is my new favorite CD to listen to while painting, driving, writing and working on any thing at all. I am writing my next novel as I listen to this work. The music puts me in a good mood to be sure. I oft cannot help but recall scenes from the movie…

Perhaps the mother of all romances, this classic crème de la crème Jane Austen story stands as a model that many modern romances seem formulated upon. Not a pure romance however, Austen offers so much more to her readers in P&P: realistic relationships, interesting characters, comical situations and compelling subplots force readers to think in…

I’m romantically inclined towards most all things relating to Jane Austen, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and other writers and themes of mainly the eighteen hundreds from England and Europe to North America. I love to celebrate everything wonderful about the lives and times of women of one to two hundred years ago….