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"she is all affability and condescension"
Pride & Prejudice | Week 5: Vol. 2 chapters 1-6 | on the arrival of spring, Rosings Park, and the inimitable Lady Catherine
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poetry for Valentine's Day
sharing some of my favorite love poems and collections with you
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"the usual practice of elegant females"
Pride & Prejudice | Week 4: End of Volume 1 | on misrepresentation, feelings, and rational creatures speaking from the heart
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from a narrator's point of view
on Austen's free indirect and the art of narration, featuring insights from fiction writer Sean Crouch, MFA
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"little elegant compliments"
Pride & Prejudice | Week 3: Volume 1, Chapters 10-16 | on entails, "pompous stile," and a bitter family feud...
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January 2025

the town and the country
Pride & Prejudice | Week 2: Volume 1, Chapters 2-9 | on the differences between the ladies from longbourn and the ladies from netherfield
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happy birthday, edith
celebrating my favorite author's birthday with a memory and Mirth quotes
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a closely reading exercise
Pride & Prejudice | A bonus exercise for closely reading chapter 1
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"it is a truth universally acknowledged"
Pride & Prejudice | Week 1: Volume 1, Chapter 1 | on universal truths and single men
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our Pride & Prejudice read-a-long begins next week
An introduction to our first read-a-long of 2025
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the history of close reading
a guest post from Scott Newstok, professor and author
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on finding yourself
an impromptu essay of gratitude and awe
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