With Rachel, Johns Hopkins UP Sales Director Meeting Janeite owners and managers of Independent Bookstores Signing (and running out of) preprints of An A-Z Guide to Jane Austen's World It was such fun to sign advance copies of An A-Z Guide to Jane Austen's World. You can preorder it at your favorite bookstore. We ran out of copies pretty quickly! The official publication date is October 6, 2026. Harriet Wu's illustrations are just gorgeous!

In front of an audience of nearly 1000 Janeites, Susan Allen Ford interviewed four Austen scholars -- Janine Barchas, Collin Hemmingway, Devoney Looser, and yours truly -- on Austen's "Acts of Greatness" in late 2025. You can now read the transcript of our conversation here: https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-46-no-1/ford-2/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781421455556 I'm surprised and delighted to receive this early review of my new Austen A-Z book. Here for convenience is the text of the review: Brodey (Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness), an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, delivers a rich guide to the language, objects, customs, and history that shaped Jane Austen’s life and work. Arranged in alphabetical order, the terms illuminate Austen’s stature

I've received my first samples of the new paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness. Doesn't it look nice? I'm delighted with the chance to make a few corrections, and also for all the new quotes on the back of the book! Thanks to all who helped the book reach this new edition!

Our NEH-funded digital humanities project, Jane Austen's Desk, now has music too! Travel back to March, 1813 and enter Austen's world via our site. If you hover over the pianoforte in the right side of the room, you will be able to enter a space to learn about five representative pieces of music from Jane Austen's life. We will be adding more music regularly. Thanks to our collaboration with the talented Laura Klein, users can learn about genres of music, composers, and conne

Coming on September 11, 2026 with Johns Hopkins UP. An A–Z Guide to Jane Austen's World features 26 carefully chosen words in order to illuminate the social customs, material culture, language, and historical forces shaping Jane Austen's fiction and life. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout by my talented colleague Harriet Wu (who also illustrated Jane Austen's Desk). A recurring theme is Austen's response to the rapidly changing age in which she lived, as well as

I'm delighted to announce that Johns Hopkins decided to release a paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness. It is available now for preorder on Amazon and elsewhere. I am gratified that the excellent reviews in the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Sunday Times (London) and elsewhere, as well as robust sales warranted this new edition. I was also happy to be able to make a few small corrections to the text as well.

In May, my daughter Clara and I had a lovely trip to New Zealand (and back again). We didn't have many days, but we satisfied our Lord of the Rings longings to see Hobbiton and the Wēta Studios. It was truly delightful, and we were particularly surprised to find Hobbiton so rural and uncommercialized. The landscape and widflowers were spectacular. So were the sheep. The Hobbit holes were just as expected: well-stocked larders, nice sturdy writing tables, plentiful cookbooks a