Persuasions No. 30
Persuasions 30 was mailed to members in mid April. If you have not yet received your copy of Persuasions, please contact Lee Ridgeway at leeridge@altrionet.com so that we can arrange a replacement copy.
The new issue of JASNA’s journal, Persuasions No. 30, has been mailed to JASNA members. This fascinating collection features essays from “Jane Austen’s Legacy: Life, Love, & Laughter,” the 2008 Annual General Meeting in Chicago.
The issue contains plenary essays by Claudia Johnson and Joan Klingel Ray, considerations of Austen’s legacy to the novel from the Victorians to the present, and an analysis of the impact of the Jane Austen film industry on British country houses. Jocelyn Harris contemplates the implications of loving Jane Austen, and Edith Lank recounts the adventures of her research into the “Bellas copy” of Lord Brabourne’s edition of Jane Austen’s Letters.
The Miscellany offers a large and varied set: from female roguery in the Juvenilia to an exploration of the late manuscripts; from game laws and the discussion of slavery in Mansfield Park to Emma as national tale; from an Austen family trip into Derbyshire to editing a Turkish translation of Pride and Prejudice, to being Lost in Austen. Click here to see the complete Table of Contents.
Jane Austen’s Writing Desk
from Freydis Jane Welland’s essay in Persuasions No. 30
“The History of Jane Austen’s Writing Desk”
Photo Courtesy of the British Library