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JASNA publications offer essays, entertainment, and news of interest to Austen fans.

JASNA’s peer-reviewed journals, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line, are leading sources for Austen studies.
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Book reviews from the newsletter are collected on this site and available to all.
Our Jane Austen Bibliography is published annually as a freely accessible resource for the Austen community.
Publications created for Annual General Meetings provide entertaining perspectives and are shared here.
Winning essays from JASNA’s student essay contest are published on this site in recognition of their high caliber.

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Admiral Croft and the Rich Uncle

Persuasions On-Line

Volume 42 No 1

Winter 2021

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Gray Morality in Lady Susan and Mansfield Park: When the Villains Aren’t so Villainous, What Makes the Heroines so Good?

Passion Mired in Pragmatism: The “Maneuvering Business” of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park

What the Coachman Said: Servants and Servanthood in Mansfield Park

Emma’s “Serious Spirit”: How Miss Woodhouse Faces the Issues Raised in Mansfield Park and Becomes Jane Austen’s Most Complex Heroine

The Pen Was in Her Hands: Austen in Africa: Colonial Ambassador?

Adjudicating Wiltshire’s Readings of Mansfield Park

“Pretty Fairly Divided Between the Sexes”: Jane Austen on Gender

Jane Austen: Gothic Novelist?

Admiral Croft and the Rich Uncle

Sir Thomas Bertram and the Slave Trade

Rendering Thought Thing-like: How Objects in Mansfield Park Inform Fanny’s Worldview

“Was There a Servant . . . Who Did Not Know the Whole Story before the End of the Day?” Upside-down Points of View in Austen

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