2015 AGM Reading List

Houses and Homes

• “The Importance of Servants in Jane Austen’s Novels” by Natalie Walshe.  Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (Winter 2014).
• “‘A Fine House Richly Furnished’: A Look at Pemberley and its Owner” by Kristen Miller Zohn.  Persuasions On-Line 34.1 (Winter 2013).
• “Jane Austen’s Idea of a Home” by S. M. Abdul Kaleque.  Persuasions On-Line 26.1 (Winter 2005).
• “Fanny Price and the (Dis)comforts of Home” by Amanda Himes.  Persuasions 27 (2005): 253-59.
• “From Mansfield Park to Gosford Park: The English Country House from Austen to Altman” by Peter W. Graham.  Persuasions 24 (1983): 211-25.
• “The Contribution of Count Rumford to Domestic Life in Jane Austen’s Time” by Hugh Rowlinson.  Persuasions On-Line 23.1 (Winter 2002).
• “A Space for Fanny: The Significance of Her Rooms in Mansfield Park” by Melissa Edmundson.  Persuasions On-Line 23.1 (Winter 2002).
• "Godmersham” by Joan Austen-Leigh, Persuasions 5 (1983); 10-12.

Food

• “The French Bread at Northanger Abbey” by Maggie Lane.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 135-45.
• “Dining at the Great House: Food and Drink in the Time of Jane Austen” by Eileen Sutherland.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 88-98.
• Review by Kimberly Brangwin of The British Housewife: or, the Cook, Housekeeper's and Gardener's Companion by Martha Bradley, in JASNA News v. 14, no. 3, Winter 1998.

Pursuing Fashion

• “Hierarchy and Seduction in Regency Fashion” by Daniel James Cole.  Persuasions On-Line 33.1 (Winter 2012).
• “‘I was tempted by a pretty coloured muslin’: Jane Austen and the Art of Being Fashionable” by Mary Hafner-Laney.  Persuasions 32 (2010): 135-43.
• “Elegance and Simplicity: Jane Austen and Wedgwood” by Linda Slothouber.  Persuasions 31 (2009): 163-72.
• “From the Polar Seas to Australasia: Jane Austen, ‘English culture,’ and Regency Orientalism” by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.  Persuasions On-Line 28.2 (Spring 2008).
• “‘To be above Vulgar Economy’: Thrifty Measures in Jane Austen’s Letters” by Susan Allen Ford.  Persuasions 30 (2008): 216-21.
• “Thread-cases, Pin-cushions, and Card-racks: Women’s Work in the City in Jane Austen’s Persuasion” by Susan E. Jones.  Persuasions On-Line 25.1 (Winter 2004).
• “Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World” by Jeffrey A. Nigro.  Persuasions 23 (2001): 50-62.

Money

• “Bingley’s Four or Five Thousand, and Other Fortunes from the North” by Linda Slothouber.  Persuasions 35 (2013): 50-63.
• “John Willoughby, Luxury Good: Sense and Sensibility’s Economic Curriculum” by Shannon Chamberlain.  Persuasions 34 (2012): 157-63.
• “Jane Austen, Pound for Pound” by Marilyn Francus.  Persuasions On-Line 33.1 (Winter 2012).
• “‘The Value of a Good Income’: Money in Emma” by Sheryl Craig.  Persuasions On-Line 22.1 (Winter 2001).
• “How Wealthy is Mr. Darcy—Really?” by James Heldman.  Persuasions 12 (1990): 38-49.

Health

• “Cartesian Dualism, Real and Literary Madness in the Regency, and the Mind and Madness in Austen’s Novels” by Karenleigh A. Overmann.  Persuasions 35 (2013): 182-90.
• “George Austen’s Absence from Family Life: The Shifting Biographical Response” by Patricia M. Ard.  Persuasions On-Line 34.1 (Winter 2013).
• “Idleness and Melancholy in Sense and Sensibility” by Márta Pellérdi.  Persuasions On-Line 32.2 (Summer 2012).
• “Marianne’s Addiction: Amorous Pleasures in Sense and Sensibility” by Kimiyo Ogawa.  Persuasions On-Line 32.2 (Summer 2012).
• “Jane Austen’s Death: The Long Reach of Typhus?” by Linda Robinson Walker.  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (Winter 2010).
• “‘Conversation, or rather talk’: Autistic Spectrum Disorders and the Communication and Social Challenges of John Thorpe” by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer.  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (Winter 2010).
• “‘Mr. Cole is Very Bilious’: The Art of Lay Medicine in Jane Austen’s Characters” by Akiko Takei.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).
• “‘A Nervous Man, Easily Depressed’: What Is Wrong with Mr. Woodhouse?” by Nicola Cummins.  Persuasions On-Line 28.1 (Winter 2007).
• “General Tilney and Bath Water” by Akiko Takei.  Persuasions 28 (2006): 264-69.
• “Jane Austen and ‘A Society of Sickness’” by Akiko Takei.  Persuasions 27 (2005): 142-51.
• “Mr. Woodhouse is not a Hypochondriac!” by Ted Bader.  Persuasions On-Line 21.2 (Summer 2000).
• “Sickness and Silliness in Sanditon” by John Wiltshire.  Persuasions 19 (1997): 93-102.

Religion

• “‘A Clergyman Is Nothing’: A Present-Day Clergyman Delivers a Riposte to Mary Crawford” by Michael Kenning.  Persuasions 36 (2014): 232-38.
• “The ‘Ordination’ of Fanny Price: Female Monasticism and Vocation in Mansfield Park” by Kathleen Anderson.  Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (Winter 2014).
• “‘My Idea of a Chapel’ in Jane Austen’s World” by Sarah Emsley.  Persuasions 24 (1997): 133-42.
• “‘A Nation Improving in Religion’: Jane Austen’s Prayers and Their Place in Her Life and Art” by Bruce Stovel.  Persuasions 16 (1994): 185-96.
• “Attending Divine Service in the Revd. George Austen’s Day” by Hugh D. McKellar.  Persuasions 6 (1984): 7-9.

Women’s Education, Women’s Place in Jane Austen’s Time

• “Fanny’s Future, Mary’s Nightmare: Jane Austen and the Clergyman’s Wife” by Sara Bowen.  Persuasions 36 (2014): 100-16.
• “Women’s Education During the Regency: Jane Austen’s Quiet Rebellion” by Barbara Horwitz.  Persuasions 16 (1994): 135-46.
• “‘Woman’s Place’ in Jane Austen’s England” by Barbara W. Swords.  Persuasions 10 (1988): 76-82.
• “The Outs and Not Outs” by Mary Millard.  Persuasions 2 (1980): 28.

Professional Life

•  “The Rev. Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodston” by Irene Collins.  Persuasions 20 (1998): 154-64.
• “Displeasing Pictures of Clergymen” by Irene Collins.  Persuasions 18 (1996): 109-19.
• “Tithes and the Rural Clergyman in Jane Austen’s England” by Eileen Sutherland.  Persuasions 16 (1994): 48-54.
• “Jane Austen and the Militia” by John Breihan and Clive Caplan.  Persuasions 14 (1992): 16-26.
• “‘The Profession of a Clergyman’” by Hugh D. McKellar.  Persuasions 7 (1985): 28-34.
• “Jane Austen’s Sailors: Gentlemen in the Military Capacity” by John Hart.  Persuasions 4 (1980): 2.

Entertainments

• “‘Favourable to Tenderness and Sentiment’: The Many Meanings of Mary Crawford’s Harp” by Jeffrey A. Nigro.  Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (Winter 2014).
• “‘[T]hey both like Vingt-un better than Commerce’: Characterization and Card Games in Pride and Prejudice” by M. W. Brumit.  Persuasions On-Line 34.1 (Winter 2013).
• “The Rules of the Assembly: Dancing at Bath and Other Spas in the Eighteenth Century” by Allison Thompson.  Persuasions On-Line 31.1 (2010).
• “A Harpist Arrives at Mansfield Park: Music and the Moral Ambiguity of Mary Crawford” by Juliette Wells.  Persuasions 28 (2006): 101-14.
• “Lifting the Heart to Rapture: Harmony, Nature, and the Unmusical Fanny Price” by Kathryn L. Libin.  Persuasions 28 (2006): 137-49.
• “Pierce Egan’s Life in London, or Is This What Jane’s Gentlemen Were Up To When Their Author Wasn’t Looking?” by Joan Freilich.  Persuasions 24 (1997): 121-32.
• “‘Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Lady B’: Talking about Theatre in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park” by Judith W. Fisher.  Persuasions 22 (2000): 70-86.
• “The Felicities of Rapid Motion: Jane Austen in the Ballroom” by Allison Thompson.  Persuasions On-Line 21.1 (Winter 2000).
• “‘Everybody Does Not Hunt’” by Patricia Jo Kulisheck.  Persuasions 8 (1986): 20-24.

Travel

• “Pemberley’s Welcome, or An Historical Conjecture Upon Elizabeth Darcy’s Wedding Journey” by Kelly McDonald.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).
• “Derbyshires Corresponding: Elizabeth Bennet and the Austen Tour of 1833” by Kelly M. McDonald.  Persuasions 30 (2008): 149-58.
• “Transports of Delight: How Jane Austen's Characters Got Around” by Ed Ratcliffe.  The Inkwell (2012), a publication of the JASNA Northern California Region.
• “A Fine House Richly Furnished: Pemberley and the Visiting of Country Houses” by Stephen Clarke.  Persuasions 22 (2000): 199-217.
• “Folks That Go A Pleasuring” by Sara Wingard.  Persuasions 14 (1992): 122-31.
• “Travel in Jane Austen’s Time: A Regency Showroom” Adapted by Sue Forgue of the JASNA Greater Chicago Region from the “Travel in Sense and Sensibility” essays by Deb Barnum of the JASNA Vermont Region.

Letters, Gossip, and News

• “Mansfield Park and the News” by Robert Miles.  Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (2014).
• “How Celebrity Name-Dropping Leads to Another Model for Pemberley” by Janine Barchas.  Persuasions 35 (2013): 75-94.
• “‘Hearty Fow Children’: The Penrhyns, Pugs, and Mansfield Park” by Stephanie Howard-Smith.  Persuasions 35 (2013): 191-99.
• “Sex, Power, and Other People’s Money: The Prince Regent and His Impact on Jane Austen’s Life and Work” by A. Marie Sprayberry.  Persuasions On-Line 33.1 (Winter 2012).
• “The Rushworths of Wimpole Street” by Laurie Kaplan.  Persuasions 33 (2011).
• “Handwriting in the Time of Jane Austen” by Robert Hurford.  Persuasions On-Line 30.1 (Winter 2009).
• “Writing by the Book: Jane Austen’s Heroines and the Art and Form of the Letter” by Cheryl L. Nixon and Louise Penner.  Persuasions On-Line 26.1 (Winter, 2005).

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