If you have enjoyed reading this edition of Persuasions On-Line, you are cordially invited to join JASNA and receive as one of many membership benefits a copy of our annual print journal, Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.

Persuasions 31, coming this spring, will print more essays from the 2009 Annual General Meeting, Jane Austen’s Brothers and Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love.  Essays will examine the brothers and sisters in fact and fiction as well as Austen’s relationships with sister and brother writers and artists.  The Miscellany will include an essay on the Loiterer, the periodical on which brothers James and Henry Austen collaborated, as well as a look at newspaper readers in Austen’s novels, some intriguing investigations of Northanger Abbey and Emma—and more!

Also coming this spring is “New Directions in Austen Studies,” a special issue of Persuasions On-Line containing selected essays from the conference held in July 2009 at Chawton House Library to mark the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s move to Chawton.  Watch this space!