Witty, wild and wonderfully Austen: an interview with author @devoney.bsky.social ahead of the publication of her new book, 'Wild for Austen': thesecretunderstandingofthehearts.blogspot.com/2025/09/witt... Publishing this week! #JaneAusten #booksky

I have my copy of @devoney.bsky.social’s new book. Why don’t you have yours yet?

Publishing today! You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney puts that myth to rest. @devoney.bsky.social's book is an entertaining look at Jane Austen's life, writing & legacy. Filled with remarkable details never before published, ‘Wild for Austen’ is out now. #booksky

“Seriously informative and enormous fun.” So grateful for this lovely review of #wildforausten in the Sept/Oct issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, to which I happily subscribe (and recommend to you). And once again, Happy 250th birthday to #JaneAusten!

What are you reading? I just downloaded Dr. Devoney Looser’s WILD FOR AUSTEN. Author Stephanie Barron says, “Thoroughly grounded in deep research and even deeper understanding of its subject, ‘Wild for Austen’ is nothing short of brilliant." I can’t wait to dive in! @devoney.bsky.social

On the latest episode of the Kickass Women of History podcast, @devoney.bsky.social introduces Sydney Owenson. Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Jane Austen all wrote about about Owenson, so why has so been been largely forgotten by modern readers? Find out here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...

'Wild for Austen' by @devoney.bsky.social is out this month, available from all good bookshops and online retailers! #JaneAusten #booksky #history #podcast

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'. You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest. Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

Thrilled that #WildforAusten is included in Lit Hub's "Best Reviewed Books of the Week," wedged right there in between Arundhati Roy and Eric Foner! So grateful for all of the support for this book and the continued attention to #JaneAusten in her 250th birthday year.

“They all want to know which novel is your favorite. I suspect most of them don’t really want to hear the obvious answer! But I’m over that. This is my authentic answer. Pride and Prejudice!” New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social on her new book “Wild for Austin.” www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...

A P&P film with Judy Garland in Philly? Not a #Janeite game of Clue! It almost was in 1947. This material is not in my new book #WildforAusten. It's a new #JaneAusten legacy story about a wild unpublished script and my first @airmail.news byline! Hope you'll read & share airmail.news/issues/2025-...

HAPPY RELEASE WEEK 🩷💚 @devoney.bsky.social @mariahfredericks.bsky.social @stmartinspress.bsky.social

“Researching Austen’s allegedly shoplifting aunt was a lot more fun than you might think.” You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt? New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social. www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...

In celebration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, we're thrilled to welcome two experts on the beloved novelist to @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social for a deep dive into Austen’s life, writing and legacy. @devoney.bsky.social @thezhm.bsky.social Tickets: www.edinburghbookshop.com/events-1/the...

I interviewed author Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social and reviewed Wild For Austen on my Substack today! www.amy-colleen.com/p/wild-for-a...

New at PB: In conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social, @devoney.bsky.social talks about her new book “Wild for Austen,” covering everything from sexuality, erotica, and love to class, moms, dads, and the power of naughtiness. www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...

“… my personal history—and this is not an uncommon history—is also about how her fiction might activate an intellectual and educational aspiration, especially for girls and women.” – @devoney.bsky.social

I love @literaryhub.bsky.social ! Maybe you're already an avid reader, too? It's a real treat and such an honor to have an excerpt from #WildforAusten published in its pages today. lithub.com/the-almost-w... #JaneAusten #Janeite

@devoney.bsky.social explores the enduring appeal of Elizabeth Bennet, Austen’s most beloved heroine.

It's my book's bday! The last piece of #WildforAusten goes into place tonight at its launch at Changing Hands Phx. There are so many to thank. I'll be expressing gratitude over the coming days. Today it feels right to thank #JaneAusten for inspiring so many of us to read, watch, argue, laugh & love.

ASU Regents Professor of English @devoney.bsky.social talked to ASU News about her new book, "Wild for Austen" which explores lesser known bits about the author’s life—including that Austen’s siblings were involved in the abolitionist movement. Read the Q&A: ow.ly/VJQJ50WN8g5 #ASUHumanities

Just one week from today, Sept. 2nd, Wild for Austen launches! Over the past several days, I've done a few podcast and radio interviews, including one tonight recorded half a world away. It's thrilling to get this chance to join global celebrations of #janeAusten ‘s 250th.

Join us at @waterstones.bsky.social TCR for an evening celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with Austen expert @devoney.bsky.social & historian @thezhm.bsky.social. They’ll delve into Austen’s enduring legacy, Regency life and romance, and much more. Tickets:

Calling all Georgia #Janeites! Join us at Emory University for a #JaneAusten 250th conference on Sept. 20th. I'll be talking #WildforAusten. I hope to see you, if you're in the Atlanta area, and please alert your Georgia-based friends.

We asked Jane Austen expert @devoney.bsky.social about her favourite Austen novel, adaptation, and what fun facts she discovered whilst researching her new book 'Wild for Austen', out next month. Read the Q&A on our blog here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08... #JaneAusten #booksky

Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!

Jane Austen, from mild to wild. @devoney.bsky.social talks to Breckyn Wood about her new book #JaneAusten open.spotify.com/episode/2hYW...

What better way to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday year, than to publish three books celebrating her life and work. 'She played and sang' by Gillian Dooley 'Wild for Austen' by @devoney.bsky.social 'Courting Disaster' by @thezhm.bsky.social Available to pre-order now! #JaneAusten #booksky

New books from ASU English faculty! Just out or forthcoming soon are works on Irish literature (G. Castle), Jane Austen (@devoney.bsky.social), space cats ‪(@nnedi.bsky.social) and Shakespeare (L. Turchi). Learn more: ow.ly/IV6X50WByRC #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social

Are you a Texas-based Janeite? Know someone who is? The second stop on my #WildforAusten book tour is a #JaneAusten lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series on Sept. 4th. I'd love to see you there! dma.org/programs/eve...

Austen Chat podcast episode drop! It was a delight to talk with host Breckyn Wood about #JaneAusten 's wild side. And a happy reminder to my teacher connections that the Jane Austen Society of North America is offering free memberships to students for the 250th anniversary. jasna.org/austen/podca...

I'm thrilled to be returning to beloved home turf & our treasured Magers and Quinn Booksellers for a #WildforAusten event, Weds., Sept. 24th at 7 p.m.. I'll be in conversation about #JaneAusten with the brilliant Andrea Kaston Tange. See you there? Free reg here: www.eventbrite.com/e/devoney-lo...

It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.

A quote from #WildforAusten is featured in the Sept. issue of @aarp.org The Magazine in its "The Tiny Slice" feature, with the spine right between Dan Brown and Ken Follett. Let me know if you spot this in the print magazine (p. 11)? I'm so grateful to AARP for covering #JaneAusten at 250!

Arizona friends, might you join me and my dear friend Tara Ison at the book launch of Wild for Austen? It'll be at the fabulous @changinghands.bsky.social (the Phoenix branch on Camelback) on Tues., Sept. 2nd at 6:30 p.m.. I'd love to see you there to celebrate this book and #JaneAusten 's 250th!

You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but @devoney.bsky.social puts that myth to rest. Tracing the author's life and legacy across 250 years, she reveals an Austen far wilder than the one we know. Publishing to mark Austen's 250th birthday, pre-order now! #JaneAusten #booksky

Thrilled that the audiobook of #WildforAusten (out Sept. 2nd) will be narrated by award-winning Marisa Calin! Calin's voice is enchanting & mellifluous, with just the right amount of humor & sass. Grateful this #JaneAusten book has such a perfect-fit narrator.

"Every time Austen makes the leap to a new media outlet, her legacy continues with an entirely new generation of readers & viewers, who connect with & react to her work in different ways." —ASU Regents Professor of English @devoney.bsky.social in @jhu.edu Magazine: ow.ly/J2q850WhHe4 #ASUHumanities

How did Jane Austen die? ASU's @devoney.bsky.social, an Austen biographer, believes that breast cancer may be a “plausible diagnosis,” since it “was not uncommon” in Austen’s era and may have run in her family. Read more in National Geographic magazine: ow.ly/Gjcg50WsOyX #ASUHumanities

“Wide-ranging exploration ... a great deal of intriguing material on offer ... Austen fans will relish these fresh insights.” Grateful to Publishers Weekly for a lovely notice! Wild for Austen is out on Sept. 2nd from St. Martin's Press. #JaneAusten #Janeites www.publishersweekly.com/9781250361332

The Global #JaneAusten Conference just released its program. I'm blown away at this once-in-a-lifetime "Wow" gathering of brilliant scholars at the University of Southampton in mid-July. Thank you in advance to co-orgs Profs. Dow & Halsey for making this happen! www.southampton.ac.uk/leaf_content...

On Sunday I gave a talk at the The Huntington to JASNASW, flanked by these two cardboard icons. It's such a gift to get to talk #JaneAusten with an audience ready to laugh and learn history & that shows up with a spirit of fun. I'm not taking that for granted in these times.

I had the lucky chance last weekend to see an early screening of episode 1 of the new Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s beautiful novel. Highly recommend your watching this moving Cassandra & #janeausten story on Sunday 5/4 on PBS Masterpiece, which deserves viewer support now more than ever.

While ASU Regents Professor of English @devoney.bsky.social considers the 1995 BBC "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries to be her personal favorite, most of her students prefer the 2005 film, she said. Over the years, she’s come to see its virtues. Read more @cnn.com: ow.ly/PlY450VETPZ #ASUHumanities

Congratulations to WSG Member, Peter Radford, for this wonderful review of his book "They Run with Surprising Swiftness". Reviewed by @devoney.bsky.social for @emwjournal.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy to share an essay I've just published in PMLA, "Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship & Telling Excellent Stories," thanks to editors Risam, Hernandez-Laroche & Yothers. Check out the whole cluster on Theories & Methodologies of Public Humanities: doi.org/10.1632/S003...

Great cover! I look forward to the book and have added it to my list of new books about Jane Austen scheduled for 2025 regency-explorer.net/jane250/

Here's my new author newsletter post, including a lot of #JaneAusten and news of my next book (out 9/2), with a bonus trip down memory lane to the tune of Allan Sherman's "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (1963). Know any good comedy songs to recommend? devoney.substack.com/p/wild-for-a...

Guys, i’ve got some news…

I'm so excited to share the punk-rock-vibes cover for Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane. The book will be out 2 Sept '25. Thanks so much for your ongoing help getting this closer to the finish line for #JaneAusten's 250th, which promises to be a bright spot in 2025.