No. 9, December 16, 1987

CONTENTS

Editorial
Page 3
Illustrations
page 4
President's Letter
pages 5-6
Notes on the Ninth Annual Meeting Judith Terry,
Sallie Wadsworth
pages 7-11
Mrs. Elton and the Slave Trade Mary DeForest pages 11-13
Yes, there is a Petty France Dean Cantrell pages 13-17
All the "Write" Moves: or, Theatrical Gesture in Sense and Sensibility Judith W. Fisher pages 17-23
Verses Kathleen Glancy pages 23-24
Fanny Price as Cinderella: Folk and Fairy-Tale in Mansfield Park Janice C. Simpson pages 25-30
Charades, Anyone? Patricia M. Shepherd page 30
Travelling in the Steps of Jane Austen Celine M. Kear pages 31-33
Elizabeth Ponders: a Triolet Virginia Golden page 33
Gunfight at the Combe Magna Corral Mary Hardenbrook pages 34-35
News from St. Nicholas Church, Steventon
page 36
The Unknown Lover Constance Pilgrim pages 37-40
The Jane Austen Top Ten Kathleen Glancy page 40
The Withering Eye, the Transmuting Hand, the Alchemies of Pride and Prejudice Sidney Ives pages 41-45
JASNA Essay Competition
page 45
Competition 1988
page 46
Competition Winners, 1987
page 46
Pen Sketches in Verse, from the Letters Patricia M. Shepherd pages 47-48
An Amusing Study: Family Likenesses in Pride and Prejudice Jocelyn  Creigh Cass pages 49-50
Visiting Edward Cooper Gaye King pages 51-55

PAPERS FROM THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE



A Scotchman at Overton: Jane Austen's North Hampshire Anthony Trollope pages 56-58
Lady Susan and the Juvenilia

   Jane Austen: the "Juvenilia" A. Walton Litz pages 59-63
   "We fainted alternately on a sofa": Female Friendship in Jane Austen's Juvenilia Deborah J. Knuth pages 64-71
   Jane Austen and the Uncommon Reader Laurie Kaplan pages 71-75
   The Madness of Jane Austen: Metonymic Style and Literature's Resistance to Interpretation Ellen E. Martin pages 76-84
   Lady Susan: The Wicked Mother in Jane Austen's Novels Barbara J. Horwitz pages 84-88
   Female Resources: Epistles, Plot, and Power Patricia Spacks pages 88-98
Contributors
page 99

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