Publications

JASNA publications offer essays, entertainment, and news of interest to Austen fans.

JASNA’s peer-reviewed journals, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line, are leading sources for Austen studies.
JASNA News reports on Austen-related events, programs, and books.
Book reviews from the newsletter are collected on this site and available to all.
Our Jane Austen Bibliography is published annually as a freely accessible resource for the Austen community.
Publications created for Annual General Meetings provide entertaining perspectives and are shared here.
Winning essays from JASNA’s student essay contest are published on this site in recognition of their high caliber.

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The Relationship Road to Self-Awareness

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2023 Essay Contest

Winning Entries

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Love, Convenience, and the Pursuit of Happiness for Austen’s Spinsters

The Marriage Law of Jane Austen’s World

Passion Mired in Pragmatism: The “Maneuvering Business” of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park

“An Active, Useful Sort of Person”: Mr. Bennet, Charlotte Lucas, and Want of Sense in a Marriage Partner

Goodness Without Beauty: Mrs. Jennings as a Hidden Mother Figure in Sense and Sensibility

Northanger Abbey and Sexual Selection: Genetic Immortality

Staging Flirtation at the Pianoforte in Sense and Sensibility and Emma

The Relationship Road to Self-Awareness

Growing into Love: A Comparison of Adolescent Marriage in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

Character, Contemplation, and Counteraction: Jane Austen’s Three Keys to Extraordinary Marriages

Marriage and Marriageability: A Linguistic Study of Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Jennings

Like Aunt, Like Niece: Generational Patterns of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

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