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The Austen Connection
by Plain Jane
We're talking about the stories of Jane Austen - how they connect to us today, and connect us to each other. austenconnection.substack.com
Episodes
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'Sense and Sensibility' Happy Hour!
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Giving, gratitude, goodness, Jane Austen
Hello friends, Enjoy this special podcast episode from a fun and meaningful conversation broadcast from our live taping at a one-day conference, “Everybody's Jane Austen.” This special symposium was hosted and produced by the Jane Austen Society of North America's Metro New York region. It was...
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Jane Austen's happy endings have strings attached
Hello, friends! So: Does Jane Austen even do happy endings? It’s a very fair question! And one we’ve explored at the Austen Connection - and now diving deeply into this question is a fascinating new book: Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness is just out, from Hopkins Press. Professor Inger…
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Second chances and Muslim romances
The Mis-Arrangement of Sana Saeed just like Jane Austen’s 'Persuasion' is all about family pressures, class pressures, societal pressures - all the pressures - navigated by two people who once innocently fell into fast love with each other, and are now reunited, amidst conflict and tension. They...
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We need romance, sparkle, joy, and Jane Austen
Just in time for that much-anticipated and dreaded day - Valentine’s Day - we are celebrating, or commiserating, by dropping a brand new podcast episode that’s all about romance, sparkle, joy, and Jane Austen. In this episode, romance author Felicity George talks about all of the above, and also...
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Live from Austen Con!
Hello friends, Welcome to a special Austen Connection podcast episode - taped earlier this month, for a live-streamed event at the wonderful Austen Con 2022, an international weekend gathering of scholars, artists, and creators on Jane Austen topics, from Melbourne, Australia. This was fun! The...
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Reading Jane Austen in Nigeria
Hello friends, Stephanie Shonekan is an author and musicologist who has worked with the BBC, public radio and written and taught extensively on music, from soul music, to country music, and Nigerian and African-American hip hop. Shonekan serves as the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at...
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Persuadable
Hello friends, We’re so happy to be able to share this conversation with the co-creators of the Rational Creatures YouTube series that retells the story of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Inspired by that viral video sensation known as The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, aka LBD, Rational Creatures is powered…
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Jane Austen hits the runway with NYFW designer Jennyvi Dizon
Hello, listeners! Designer Jennyvi Dizon is a fashion designer whose latest collection - debuting this weekend at NYFW - is inspired by the characters of Jane Austen. Dizon has been sewing since she was a child - she says it’s how she speaks to the world. Every design she creates, she says,...
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Author Nikki Payne is taking her shots. As did Jane Austen.
Hello friends, Welcome to a new weekend, a new month and a brand new season of the Austen Connection podcast, back right now with this episode! Kicking off our third season of the Austen Connection podcast is author Nikki Payne - a novelist, tech anthropologist, and cultural observer in all…
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The Podcast - S2, Ep6: The Math, the Money, the Marriage, in Jane Austen
Hello friends, It’s a new Monday of a new year. Hope yours is fantastic. And however it is, and wherever you are, here’s some Jane Austen podcasting to power your Monday. Louis Menand is a New Yorker writer and a Harvard professor who tries to get his Harvard students to read and understand and...
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The Podcast - S2, Ep5: Regency women of color finding romance, making history
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The Podcast - S2 Ep4: Muslim romance right out of Jane Austen
Hello dear friends, We’re heading into the holidays - and next week our topic is Bad Families from Jane Austen, just in time for our family gatherings for the US holiday, Thanksgiving Day. Stay tuned for that! But first, let’s talk about romance. Specifically, let’s talk about Muslim romance. The...
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The Podcast - S2 Ep3: Jane Austen for the People
Hello friends, Today we bring a new podcast episode and conversation that I think you will love. It’s with Damianne Scott, an educator, writer and speaker in the Jane Austen community - she teaches literature at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College and Cincinnati State University. And...
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The Podcast S2, Ep2: Finding your path through story, romance, witchery, and Jane Austen
Hello my friends, You’ve been through a lot this with us this October - our month of horrors has explored the haunted halls of Mansfield Park, the monstrous mousiness of Fanny Price Ultimate Conqueror, the Drawing-Room treachery of Jane Austen’s parlors, and now we cap it off just in time for...
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The Podcast S2: Comedy, Romance, Pleasure, Pain - Adapting Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’
Dear Jane friends, It’s Tuesday, and not our usual Thursday, because we have something special for you: Today, we are kicking off a second season of the podcast! We have some amazing conversations lined up for you, dropping on Thursdays over the next few weeks - so make sure you are signed up for...
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The Podcast - Episode 7: Jane Austen will teach you, challenge you, and rescue you
Hello friends, Today, a podcast episode! It would not have been possible to have our Everything Emma month here at the Austen Connection without consulting Professor George Justice. Dr. Justice is the editor of the 2011 Norton Critical Edition of Emma, a professor of 18th Century British...
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The Podcast - Episode 6: Devoney Looser on Living, Loving and Arguing About Jane Austen
Hello dear friends, Welcome to another week of The Austen Connection and our sixth podcast episode, which you can stream from right here, or from Apple or Spotify! And this episode features a conversation with Austen scholar and Janeite Devoney Looser - who for many of you captures the spirit and...
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The Podcast - Episode 5: Danielle Christmas on Being Intentional about Race and the Regency
Professor Danielle Christmas is a scholar in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her day-job, she researches serious topics about race and history, from white nationalism to the legacy of slavery and the Holocaust, and how issues like this are...
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The Podcast - Episode 4: Black British Life in the Regency and Beyond
Hello dear friends, If you’ve watched the wildly-popular Netflix series Bridgerton or the wonderful film The Personal History of David Copperfield starring Dev Patel, you might have experienced and appreciated what today’s podcast guest saw: People of color in a fictionalized dramatization of…
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The Podcast - Episode 3: Romance, the Regency, and Jane Austen
Hello friends, Today we continue the conversation with fabulous sisters Leah and Bea Koch, co-owners and founders of The Ripped Bodice, the romance-only bookstore in the Los Angeles area. They also work with Sony Pictures in the development of romance-to-screen adaptations. Bea Koch is the author...
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The Podcast - Episode 2: The Sisters of The Ripped Bodice
Dear friends, Our second podcast episode is out! And it’s a treat. In this conversation with superb sisters Leah and Bea Koch, co-owners and founders of Los Angeles romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, we get into the questions about what Jane Austen has to do with romance (a lot, friends),...
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The Podcast - Episode 1: Author Soniah Kamal on how Jane Austen is Pakistani
Hello, dear friends! It’s here! Episode One/Season One of the Austen Connection podcast. You can press play and listen or stream from any device, and it’s also available (we hope) on Apple podcasts. Enjoy, and if you like it, share with your Janeite and bookish friends. Thank you for being here…
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