Kim Wilson

Thank you! I hope your day was wonderful.

You, too!

In an early 20th-century watercolor-painting postcard, a smiling women dressed in the style of the 1820s carries a roast turkey on a platter to a table filled with dishes of food for a Thanksgiving feast.

Jane Austen wrote about thankfulness in a prayer she composed: "Give us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference." I'm so grateful for the community on this site. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.

Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you, Charlie Brown."

It'll be like Professor Snape - secretly laboring for years apparently in service of the Dark Lord, but revealed in the end to be Actually Good at Heart.

I think of it every time I change the battery in my mouse.

Absolutely nailed it!

"Papi! Papi! Papi!" 💗 👨‍👩‍👧

Here, kitty, kitty.

Marigolds in November!

Everywhere I turn. No escape. Send help.

Christmas gifts for your favorite Jane Austen reader!

I say we bring back the twopence.

Trying to choose between my interesting, edgy friend or my goddess of all that was, is, and ever shall be in English literature.

Got a little something in my eye.

Don't cave! You'll kill small businesses that rely on the ACA.

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Logo for the 2026 Jane Austen Society of North America conference, with the theme Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

PLEASE SHARE: The Call for Papers for the 2026 JASNA AGM is open through Nov 30. The conference will be in Tucson, AZ, Oct 29-Nov 1, 2026, focusing on Jane Austen's Bath Novels: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 1/4

Jane Austen (1775-1817), considered by many to be the best novelist ever in the English language. Her works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.

Did women ruin the workplace?

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

Will trade editing for chicken soup.

I'm in! "There was no question as to its being value for money."

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You could read a NYT op-ed about how women make workplaces worse, or you could read an editorial I wrote for
the Journal of Child Neurology about how women -& diverse people, generally -make medicine better:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(didn't think I would need to write this in 2025)

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Lady Catherine de Bourgh as president.
"Elizabeth saw, with admiration of [Darcy's] taste, that [Pemberley] was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of [Lady Catherine's] Rosings." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Poor baby! He just needs a tiny morsel to save him. ☺️🧀

So honored you fired the reporters who did the work? Shame on you.

It's tacky in the Midwest, too. Americans have a proud history of rejecting gilded plutocracy.