Your invitation to A Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility

Please join me for “A Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility,” a new series of guest posts, which will launch next Thursday with an essay on “Sisters and Sisterhood,” by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney.

With the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth coming up in 2025, this is a great time to celebrate her first published novel. We’ll begin on the first day of summer, June 20th, and the series will run through to the end of the season, with a couple of posts each week, usually on Tuesdays and Fridays.

“A Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility” will feature guest posts by Maggie Arnold, Finola Austin, Elaine Bander, Deb Barnum, Sandra Barry, Cheryl Bell, Matthew Berry, Diana Birchall, L. Bao Bui, Kathy Cawsey, Carol Chernega, Lori Mulligan Davis, Lizzie Dunford, Susan Allen Ford, Paul Gordon, Collins Hemingway, Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Natalie Jenner, Hazel Jones, George Justice, Theresa Kenney, Deborah Knuth Klenck, Shawna Lemay, Emily Midorikawa, Jessica Richard, S.K. Rizzolo, Peter Sabor, Vic Sanborn, Marilyn Smulders, Jacqueline Stevens, Emma Claire Sweeney, Joyce Tarpley, Janet Todd, and Deborah Yaffe, along with two teenagers, Gail and Ria, who are reading S&S for the first time.

I’ve hosted blog series celebrations for Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, and I’m excited to read and celebrate Sense and Sensibility with all of you. Please share this invitation with anyone who might like to join us in discussing Austen’s first novel.

I’ll collect the links to all the posts in the series on this page, “A Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility.”

In the fall, I’ll be hosting a blog series celebrating the 150th anniversary of L.M. Montgomery’s birth. I hope you’ll join us for that one as well!

If you enjoyed this post, I hope you’ll consider recommending it to a friend.

Here are the links to my last two posts, in case you missed them:

“More than I can tell” (Quotations from Alice Munro)

“Would an expectation to read Faulkner be far off?” (Photos from my trip to Oxford, Mississippi)

Read more about my books, including Jane Austen’s Philosophy of the Virtues and Jane Austen and the North Atlantic, here.