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Tag: Jane Austen

  • Jane Austen’s Emma as a Mystery Novel

    As we shift into the New Year (happy January 1!), a reminder that 2025 was a year of Austen tributes. Here’s my own belated contribution. Austen has been of central importance in my life. My closest friend from high school and I remain united in significant part through our love of Austen, a passion which…

  • Epistolary Mysteries

    I am a woman of letters: I love writing and receiving long, newsy missives filled with gossip, tales of professional rivalries and triumphs, and ideas for the various big projects and life events that friends are contemplating. Alas, no one sends me long letters anymore. My mail is bills, bold political pleas for support, and…

  • Jane Eyre and Unreliable Female Narrators: The Bête Noire of Contemporary Thrillers

    “Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre tells us. “A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” Guests are out of the question, of course. When one’s first attempt at nuptials has been interrupted by a series of events including, but not limited to, the groom’s mad first wife…