No. 43

Message from the President

Liz Philosophos Cooper

Editor’s Note

Susan Allen Ford

Martha Lloyd and the Culinary Arts at Chawton Cottage

Julienne Gehrer

Performing to Strangers: Private Art and Public Performance

Elaine Bander

Sisters (and Brothers) and the Arts: Austens, Porters, Founders, and Beyond

Devoney Looser

A Sailor and an Artist: The Naval Drawings of Francis Austen

Toby R. Benis

Contemplating Beauty: Jane Austen’s Women as Connoisseurs

Natasha Duquette

“There Is No Understanding a Word of It”: Musical Taste and Italian Vocal Music in Austen’s Musical and Literary World

Gillian Dooley

Persuasion as Opera and Song Cycle: A Librettist’s Tale

Douglas Murray

Theatre and Theatricality; Or, Jane Austen and Learning the Art of Dialogue

Gillian Dow

“My Name Was Norval”: Douglas, Elocution, and Acting in Mansfield Park

Susan Allen Ford

A Tale of Two Authors: Did Jane Austen Influence the Writings of Toni Morrison?

Carl E. Johnson

Race and Redirection: Facing Up to Blackface

Lesley Peterson

The Janes of Austen: The Author’s Use of Her Own Name

Nicole Dusseljee

Kantian Duty as a Framework for Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Jake Bailey

After MacIntyre: Are “Constancy” and “Amiability” Primary Virtues for Jane Austen?

Judith Stove

Austen in London, Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, and the Inception of Emma

Sayre Greenfield

Dorothea Lint

Austen’s Malvolio: Twelfth Night as the Shakespearean Intertext for Emma

Tanya K. Schmidt

“A Third—a Something between the Do-Nothing and the Do-All”: A Middle-Course Word Game in Emma

Jie Zhuang

“I Am Not Helpless”: Miss Bates as the Hidden Queen of Highbury

Diane Reynolds

Marrying Mr. Right-Enough, or Domestic Realism and a Sustainable Community in Emma

Peter Graham