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 32, coming this spring, will print more essays from the 2010 Annual General Meeting, Jane Austen and the Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem, and Muslin in Portland.  Essays, including plenary addresses by Stephanie Barron and Juliet McMaster, will examine Austen’s entanglement with the mysteries and mayhem in her world:  her experimentation with fictional convention, her sources in fact and fiction, her examination of such as topics clerical absenteeism and fashion.  The Miscellany will include a piece by the late Brian Southam as well as essays on the juvenilia, The Watsons, Isabelle de Montolieu’s translation of Persuasion—and more!