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Wendy Queen Appointed as the Inaugural Chief Transformation Officer at Johns Hopkins University Press
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Heels, Flats & Ankle Straps: Transitional Shoes In Jane Austen's World
That we have come to associate the emergence of Regency style in North America with Jane Austen is, of course, a tribute to the strength and power of her writing. The first of Austen’s novels to be published in America was Emma, appearing in 1816, within a...
Behind the Book: The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
An Irishwoman, who died more than two hundred years ago, can help us understand the self-destructive effect of Islamophobia now sweeping the western world and casting its dark shadow over the American presidential election. Mary Tighe (1772-1810) was the...