May 20, 2018

Blog/Literary

Kindred Spirit Book Club: Summer Reading Series

Hello, fellow Kindred Spirit book lovers! I’m launching a summer book club and blog series starting June 4th, and I want you to be part of it! If you love reading, wish you read more, or want to be inspired to read great books this summer, then this series is for you. This summer book series is designed to help...

May 13, 2018

Blog/Jane Austen/Literary

A Little Motherly Advice from Jane Austen’s Mothers

Jane Austen never had children of her own, and she never wrote a conduct manual for mothers, but her novels certainly speak volumes about her opinion on the state of...

April 26, 2018

Blog/Jane Austen/Literary

Coming This Fall: A New Devotional Book Featuring the Prayers of Jane Austen

April 23, 2018

Blog/Jane Austen/Literary

Regency walking dresses and broken hearts in Persuasion

This is an 1815 print of “a young woman in an autumnal walking dress taken from La Belle Assemblee…” (123). It appears in an annotated edition of Persuasion that I...

April 3, 2018

Blog/Jane Austen/Literary

An English Wedding at Sherbourne Park

“…you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.” –Emma My husband and I were invited to a family...

March 8, 2018

Blog/Faith

Celebrate small victories.

When I think of victory, I usually think of complete, ground-into-powder-under-my-heel types of victories. TOTAL victory. But more and more, I find myself rejoicing in the small victories all around...

March 8, 2018

Blog/Literary

Emily of New Moon

Last year, the L.M. Montgomery Institute blog held an Anne of Green Gables read-along; it was so popular that they decided to hold an Emily of New Moon read-along this year. It’s currently in full swing and...