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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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Moral Growth and the Heroine in Lady Susan

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2020 Essay Contest

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Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

Essay Contest Winning Entries

2021 Essay Contest

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Gray Morality in Lady Susan and Mansfield Park: When the Villains Aren’t so Villainous, What Makes the Heroines so Good?

Marianne Dashwood’s Repentance, Willoughby’s “Repentance,” and The Book of Common Prayer

Faithfully, Yours: Womanhood, Faith, and “A Woman’s Portion” in Persuasion

Moral Growth and the Heroine in Lady Susan

“Could He Even Have Seen into Her Heart”: Mr. Knightley’s Development of Sympathy

Emma’s “Serious Spirit”: How Miss Woodhouse Faces the Issues Raised in Mansfield Park and Becomes Jane Austen’s Most Complex Heroine

Seeing and Knowing: Taste as Moral Judgment

“These Three Remain”: a Trilogy of Virtues in Persuasion

Free Indirect Style and Moral Thought in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Lady Susan: The Coquette, Machiavellian, and Villain of Jane Austen’s Novels

Christian Ethics in the Dashwood Family: An Exploration of the Effects of Elinor’s Prudence on Marianne

“Hope Springs Eternal”: Faith, Hope, Charity, and Suffering in Persuasion

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