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Our official reading copy of “Persuasion” is the Penguin Classics edition, but many Jane Austen fans have their own favorite copies they...

Hello, JASP-ers! It’s just a few weeks until we meet in North Carolina. We’ve added two supplemental readings to the site at the bottom...

Scorpion Dec. 24-26, 1798: Admiral Gambier in reply to my father’s application writes as follows. — “As it is usual to keep young...

With computers, tablets and cellphones, handwriting seems as if it’s becoming a lost art. Benjamin Bartgis is helping to keep it alive....

It’s one thing to read “Persuasion” and take in its themes and characters. It’s another to take those themes and characters and bring...

What would Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth listen to if they existed today? We can only imagine…. Here are two Spotify playlist...

We’ve all got our favorite “Persuasion” adaptation — or if you don’t yet, you might by the time you leave the Jane Austen Summer Program...

“I’m always trying to catch Jane Austen in the act of creation,” says scholar Jocelyn Harris, who’s scheduled to give the keynote lecture...