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.

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.

Deadline October 1, 2025. This a great opportunity! www.englishceramiccircle.org.uk/grants/

Some homophones are also HOMO-phones, as in bear (big hairy gay man)

What is left out of our understanding of Britain's most iconic writers? Our friend @kerriarsenault.bsky.social reviewed THE TREMBLING HAND for the @bostonglobe.com books section -- the review is up now and will appear in the print section on Sunday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/23/a...

She’s right!

I’m assigning this to my Austen seminar for lots of reason including Devoney’s work on Austen and abolition. It’s also a wonderful model for how to write TO the public about cultural history and archival research.

We are very excited about Wild for Austen. Witty, incisive, readable, and a model of public scholarship.

Pre-order!!!

No one who had ever seen @triciamatthew.bsky.social in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an Austen editor… And yet…

I can say with some confidence that the production company did definitely know this. Because I spent more than an hour, at their invitation, telling them about it.

"These objects also express larger ideas about the concept of race, romantic notions of distant lands, the harsh realities of slave labor in the colonies, the presence of Black servants in wealthy European households, and the culture of luxury consumption." 🗃️ yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Thrilled about this!

On 9 May 1814, Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park was published. The novel plays an important role in our Austen and Turner exhibition @harewoodhouse where we place it in conversation with abolitionist works by Olaudah Equiano and William Cowper and Turner’s Slave Ship. #austenandturner

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773424... Also out September 2025…

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773425... I can’t quite believe I did this…surreal. Available September 2025. Pride and Prejudice

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#KSAAEvents: "The Spirit of the Universal Emancipation." March 31, Sarah Marsh & Imani Tucker explore the role of the more- or less-than human in Romantic-era writing (vampires, Prometheus, or the cosmos of Benjamin Banneker). 💻🔗 Sign up for this virtual event here: www.k-saa.org/events/the-s...

So important to support work that preserves and reflects on history….especially in these times.

We are pleased to announce this year's new titles, stunning covers by Jaya Nicely, AND the 2025 S&T Classics YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION! 🎉 Six newly revisited classics in conversation sent straight to your doorstep all year: spring, summer, fall. Only at unnamedpress.com

march 18th at georgetown

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f... “Fanny Price smolders in this cousins-to-lovers romance while a rake tries to penetrate her…heart.”

There’s still time to join the Clarissa-in-real-time Substack! Introductions today. Lurkers welcome. #clarissa2025 open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

"When we examine the faded words we cannot fail to see the violent power of White enslavers in faded black ink on yellowed paper, but it is Kitty Thomson’s fierce independence and resistance that echoes loudest across the centuries." Simon P. Newman, Brown 2026 Fellow jcblibrary.org/news/resisti...

There is always something new to browse in Americana, the JCB's digital platform. Today we found this engraving of Lignum vitae, the national flower of Jamaica. Part of Byam, Lydia, fl. 1797-1800 A collection of exotics... [London] D797 B993 /3-SIZE americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...

Pride and Prejudice was published today in 1813. The Jane Austen House embraces Austen’s complex legacy. Some highlights from May 2024 visit: Map of Antigua Clarkson on Abolition THE writing desk Tea and a cupcake…always.

Euphemia Toussaint was freed by her uncle, Pierre Toussaint, a formerly enslaved man from Haiti who became a very successful entrepreneur & philanthropist in New York. She wrote him weekly letters in English & French. This one is from June 20, 1828.

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

Just re-reading this morning --yes as a bit of an antidote to The World-- this wonderful reflection from @triciamatthew.bsky.social about her Race & Regency Lab launch at the @jcblibrary.bsky.social this fall. So good. 🗃️ jcblibrary.org/news/race-an...

[Individual Highlight – Doctoress] Cuba Cornwallis, Port Royal, Jamaica. She’s been on my mind a lot recently, and even though she is not one of my ladies, I think she is worth remembering. #18thcentury #blackhistory

I'm so proud of Sex, Lies and Sensibility...she's just a very chill girl on @elleusa.bsky.social list of best romance books of 2024!! www.elle.com/culture/book...

*Please share widely!* Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

The co-winners of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize are Marlene Daut for “Awakening the Ashes” (@uncpress.bsky.social) & Sara Johnson for “Encyclopédie Noire:” (OIEAHC and UNC)!!!!!!!! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

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Tacos, Black bookstores and the best little book festival in Texas #booksky #blacksky #romancelandia

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

I'm so excited. It's NPR Books We Love Day! Books We Love is NPR's interactive reading guide —fully indexed, categorized and handpicked by NPR staff and freelance writers like me. I wrote about nine of my most beloved 2024 releases. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

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Ranging from antislavery to Amnesty International this collection on the relationships between humanitarianism & empire is now available in paperback. Dedicated to our late, brilliant, colleague & friend Trevor Burnard. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182418/

We have some terrific new posts up on the @jcblibrary.bsky.social site, inc this piece by Bertie Mandelblatt, curator of maps and prints and scholar of cartography and esp. the French Caribbean, about the new exhibit she's curated. jcblibrary.org/news/living-... #VastEarlyAmericas

My photo can't do it justice, but @race-regency.bsky.social, if you're going to be in Vancouver soon (or Des Moines, where it's heading next), you should check out the Firelei Báez exhibition. There are many essays to be written on these works and the Regency (not least on the Brighton Pavilion)

Our Fall Sale is underway. If you are outside the US & Latin America, shop with our partners, @capacademicbooks.bsky.social and Univ. of Toronto Press for faster & cheaper shipping. www.combinedacademic... utpdistribution.com/...

I have started building a stater pack for history of colonialism and imperialism go.bsky.app/TDMSz4Y