Essay Contest submissions are judged in two rounds. In the first round each essay is read and ranked independently and anonymously by three judges. Only a small fraction of those entries advance to the second round, in which each essay is read and ranked by every judge on the entire panel. The following essays did not win one of the top three prizes in each division, but they were judged worthy of proceeding into the round of finalists. They are therefore accorded Honorable Mention.
High School Division
Peihe Feng, High School Affiliated to South China Normal University, Guangdong, China
"Beyond Satire: the Hidden Story in Jane Austen’s 'Confined' World"
Katherine M. Reddy, Fairfield Ludlowe High School, Fairfield, CT
"Don't Settle for Collins: The Feminist Ideas of Jane Austen"
Graduate Division
Katherine Tencza, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
"Austen's Witty, Time-Defying Character Insights in Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion"
High School Division
College Division
Malika M. Amoruso, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
"After Happily-Ever-After: Austen’s Recipe for Lasting Marriages in Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion"
Graduate Division
High School Division
College Division
Graduate Division
High School Division
College/University Division
High School Division
College/University Division
“Villainous Women: Lady Susan and Lucy Steele as Machiavellian Characters”
High School Division
Eleanor R. Bishop, Home School, Centralia, WA
“The Good, the Bad, and the Horrid Novels: Literary Mentorship in Northanger Abbey"
Mentor: Carrie Bishop
Leila J. Castillo, Home School, Ave Maria, FL
“‘The Improvement of Her Mind by Extensive Reading’: Literary Education and the Accomplished Woman in Northanger Abbey"
Katie Fang, Pennsylvania AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA
“Fictional and Functional Reading in Northanger Abbey and Emma”
Mentor: Maya Inspektor
Emma L. Harrell, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, MO
"Reading One’s Character: Novels in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as a Means to Elucidate Character Traits"
Daniel Chun Ernn Kam, AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA
"Reading in Northanger Abbey: 'Originality of Thought, and Literary Taste'"
Mentor: Maya Inspektor
Nora M. Olson, Pennsylvania AP Homeschoolers Online Courses, Kittanning, PA
"'Taking the False with the True': Perspective on Literature in Northanger Abbey”
Mentor: Maya Inspektor
Vivian H. Pryor, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Ridgeland, MS
"Northanger Abbey: 'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid'"
Mentor: Carolyn Brown
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
High School Division
College/University Division
Graduate School Division
Northanger Abbey