Sarah Emsley

OPENING DAY ANNOUNCEMENT! 🦆📚

We open October 29th! We're excited to see you! 😄

If you missed the chance to hear Alexander MacLeod talking about Budge Wilson and the Project Bookmark Canada plaque on CBC Radio's Information Morning yesterday, you can find the link to that segment on their website. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Photos of author Budge Wilson and Shirreff Hall, Dalhousie University, with an invitation: "Join us as we unveil the Budge Wilson Bookmark on the Canlit Trail."

Today! Please join us for the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark today, Oct. 18th, at 3:00 p.m. on the Dalhousie University campus, on the east side of Shirreff Hall (6385 South St.) The plaque honours Wilson's story "The Leaving," a powerful narrative of a quiet act of rebellion & emancipation.

'Let us have the luxury of silence'
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sometimes you just need a bit of peace and quiet! 😍

Following the path of the River Test from Overton to its source at Ashe and then on to Austen's birthplace at Steventon in Hampshire
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#JaneAusten #nature #wellbeing #hampshire

Numerous trees in varying brilliant shades of red, orange, yellow, and green are reflected in a still lake along with a small white dock.

Drove by this vibrant view earlier and just had to pull over to admire it for a bit.

As L.M. Montgomery wrote, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

DYNAMIC DUO!

Join Jane Doucet and myself this coming Saturday at the Halifax Forum Fall Farmers’ Market from 8am until 1pm.

We will both have copies of multiple book titles for sale for upcoming gift giving and/or for yourself!

@pottersfieldpress.bsky.social

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Invitation to the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark, with photos of Wilson, her book The Leaving, and Shirreff Hall. Unveiling at 3pm next to Shirreff Hall, followed by a reception in the Dalhousie Student Union Building.

Please join us for the unveiling of the Budge Wilson Bookmark on Saturday, October 18th, at 3:00 p.m. on the Dalhousie University campus. This Project Bookmark Canada plaque honours Wilson's short story "The Leaving," a powerful narrative of a quiet act of rebellion and emancipation.

Curious George and a Woozle smiling and skipping down the sidewalk.

We’re throwing a party and you’re invited! 🥳 Please join us on Saturday, October 18th from 10am-12pm to celebrate our 47th birthday! There will be storytime, free face painting, music, our famous fishpond and more! Our favourite monkey will definitely be making an appearance so mark your calendars!

See you tomorrow!

@pottersfieldpress.bsky.social
@kingsbookstore.bsky.social
@benjaminwrites.bsky.social

#halifax #halifaxevents #novascotia #novascotiahistory #halifaxhistory

Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻

Opening day to be announced soon!

🍁 “Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill?” 🍁

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

Sometimes class prep is pretty fun, really. The ending of Persuasion never disappoints. 😍

Live Like an Artist – Overwintering — Transactions with Beauty — I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of overwintering, as I have brought in a couple of geraniums to spend the next season or so on my kitchen windowsill, and a hibiscus plant for another corn...

“People do things like read or look at art because they want to be delighted, or be shocked by beauty, or for joy or surprise or to be taken outside of where they are. … How can we show people that more? I mean, of course we can. We need to keep trying.”
– @shawnalemay.bsky.social

In 1901 Constance and Ellen Hill visited 'every place associated' with Jane Austen in order to better understand the 'great novelist'. Ellen made line drawings at each location!
Deane House, the Deane Gate Inn and Steventon Church on the Overton Jane Austen Trails in 1901 and now!
#JaneAusten

A beautiful tribute to the late Margaret C. Sullivan, the brilliant founder of Austenblog and author of Austen-inspired books and stories.

Lover's Lane at Green Gables in Cavendish, PEI, on a sunny late summer afternoon: a path through the woods, with a row of white birch trees and dappled light.

“In those divine woodland solitudes one can hear the voice of one’s own soul—the voice of nature—the voice of God. I wish I might go there every day of my life—I always feel better after a stroll under those green arches where nature reveals herself in all her beauty.”
– L.M, Montgomery, 1893

Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books This is a group of books I read several months ago and am just catching up on now. They are by no means the only books by NS authors I’ve read this year, or recently. For example, I wrote abo…

Catching Up With Nova Scotia Authors and Books consumedbyink.ca/2025/09/14/c... @nimbuspub.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @moosehousepress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social #BoularderieIslandPress #CanLit #ReadAtlantic #NovaScotia #fiction

A round mirror with a dark grey frame is perched against a wooden telephone pole and its entire surface reflects tree silhouettes set against a deep fiery red and orange sunset.

Mirror, mirror, off the wall..Left on a residential curb for tomorrow’s garbage collection, it made for a neat photo of tonight’s spectacular sunset!

Seasonable Autumn is a lovely season in England—cue the Keats: “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”--and for Janeites, this fall offers some special 250th anniversary treats: * Hampshire, Jane Austen’s home...

Autumn treats for #JaneAusten fans in the UK.
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To Photograph a Place — Transactions with Beauty In September of 2023, Liane Neves from Porto Alegre came to Edmonton and took photographs and then later that same month I went to Porto Alegre in Brazil and did same. I’ll be posting more photos ...

“When you photograph anything, you’re a body holding a camera, thinking, feeling, working with your limitations in time and space. You’re an ethical being, looking, seeing. You have a soul. So that’s all in your image whether anyone takes the time to really look at it or not.”
– Shawna Lemay

It’s so lovely to see The Austens at Woozles! Thank you, Woozles friends. 🩷

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Beyond the fir wood was an open curve in the road and she had promised to wave a last farewell as they passed around it. We watched the curve in silence, in the sunshine of the autumn morning. The delight of the world had been ours on the golden road…But now the shadow of change was over it.

“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.”
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Two headlines from different articles. First says "At my high school no one is talking about AI. but everyone is using it. Aug. 28 Sam Barber." Second says "I'm a high schooler. AI is demolishing my education. The end of critical thinking in the classroom. By Ashanty Rosario"

Two pieces by high school students in the same week worth a read (one from The Important Work, one from The Atlantic). theimportantwork.substack.com/p/at-my-high...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“Weird, but Fantastic”: Devoney Looser on Those Who Love Jane Austen - Public Books “The Austen biography space is fairly saturated and covered. But there’s still a lot more we can learn by seeing her in context: that is, by seeing Austen in relation to her society, her family, her f...

“… 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

Graphic with book cover for The Austens by Sarah Emsley, with details about the launch, Oct. 21st, 7pm, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS.

I’ve been working on my novel The Austens for a long time, and I’m having a big party to celebrate the launch (& Jane Austen’s 250th birthday & the Austen family’s connections with Nova Scotia). October 21st, Regency Ballroom, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax.
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“If we keep going this way, we might end up graduating without even noticing that we’re not having thoughts of our own.”
– Sam Barber

I agree! Hope you enjoy.