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Help Add Music to Jane Austen's Desk
Click on the image to go to our Kickstarter page. Jane Austen’s Desk is a digital humanities project for the public funded (until recently) by the NEH. JAD recreates Jane Austen’s world in 1813, serving as an interactive teaching tool and scholarly resource for all readers interested in Austen’s intellectual and material world, including her vicarious travels. Please consider supporting our Kickstarter campaign so we can add Jane Austen’s hand-copied music to the Desk with pe
3 days ago


Sights and Sounds of JASP 2025 on WUNC
Anisa Khalifa, who attended part of our Jane Austen Summer Program in New Bern, NC, has just posted an episode of WUNC's The Broadside...
Aug 29


Jane Austen's Desk Poster
You can learn more about the features in our new project here!
Feb 17


Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness in the Hudson Review
Thanks to Alexandra Mullen for a creative and thought-provoking review of my book.
Feb 15


Cosmopolitan UK article
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a63633376/jane-austen-gen-z-fans/ This lovely article by Lydia Venn talks about Austen's...
Feb 15


Jane Austen's Desk in NOLA
Sarah Schafer Walton and I had fun presenting Jane Austen's Desk at the "Innovation Room" of the Modern Language Association's annual...
Feb 15


A Bookish Christmas
Thanks to our Jane Austen's Desk naval historian Sheila Johnson Kindred for sharing this lovely Christmas celebration!
Jan 14


Excerpt from our Live Jane Austen & Co from Chapel Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_diwzlo7Q Susan Allen Ford and Inger S. B. Brodey discuss their new books This was an in-person event...
Jan 12


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