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Sarah Emsley
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Author of books & essays on Jane Austen & Edith Wharton. The Austens: a novel, available now from Pottersfield Press. https://sarahemsley.com/the-austens-a-novel/
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 3
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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Graphic with book cover for The Austens by Sarah Emsley, with details about the launch, Oct. 21st, 7pm, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS.
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 2d
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Budge Wilson Bookmark Unveiling and Celebration
Event in Halifax, NS by Sarah Emsley and Hughena Matheson on Saturday, October 18 2025
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 2d
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.
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.
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Woozles Children’s Bookstore @woozlesbooks.bsky.social · 5d
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!
Curious George and a Woozle smiling and skipping down the sidewalk.
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Katie Ingram @katieyingram.bsky.social · 4d
See you tomorrow!

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#halifax #halifaxevents #novascotia #novascotiahistory #halifaxhistory
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The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery @thehappyduckbooks.bsky.social · 6d
Getting our ducks in a row! 🦆📚🌻

Opening day to be announced soon!
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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · 8d
🍁 “Look at these maple branches. Don’t they give you a thrill?” 🍁
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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 8d
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."

Sometimes class prep is pretty fun, really. The ending of Persuasion never disappoints. 😍
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 8d
“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
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...
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Overton Jane Austen Trails @janeaustentrails.bsky.social · 15d
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!
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 19d
A beautiful tribute to the late Margaret C. Sullivan, the brilliant founder of Austenblog and author of Austen-inspired books and stories.
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Deborah Yaffe @deborahyaffe.bsky.social · 19d
Saying goodbye to a consummate #Janeite.
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Rest in peace, Editrix
I can’t remember when I first read AustenBlog, Maggie Sullivan’s indispensable guide to early-twenty-first-century Jane Austen fandom. I missed the moment in July of 2004 when Maggie launched her site...
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · 21d
“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
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.
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Naomi MacKinnon @consumedbyink.bsky.social · 23d
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
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…
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Yvette d’Entremont @dentremy.bsky.social · 29d
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!
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.
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Deborah Yaffe @deborahyaffe.bsky.social · Sep 8
Autumn treats for #JaneAusten fans in the UK.
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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...
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 8
“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
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 ...
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 8
It’s so lovely to see The Austens at Woozles! Thank you, Woozles friends. 🩷
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Woozles Children’s Bookstore @woozlesbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4
We’re very excited to share that Sarah Emsley‘s (@sarahemsley.bsky.social) book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴, has arrived early! She kindly stopped by to sign copies so come grab your copy today. Congrats Sarah!

#halisky #booksky
Author signing her newly published book, The Austens, on a colourful window seat.
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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · Sep 7
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2026 – L.M. Montgomery and Change – L. M. Montgomery Institute
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MCavert 🍁 @mcavert.bsky.social · Sep 6
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.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · Sep 7
“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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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · Sep 3
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...
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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"
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 4
“… 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
“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...
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Sep 3
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.
www.facebook.com/events/13893...
Graphic with book cover for The Austens by Sarah Emsley, with details about the launch, Oct. 21st, 7pm, Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS.
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Aug 29
“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
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · Aug 29
"...I want teachers to know that there are still people like me that want to learn and don’t want to cheat in school."

Must-read piece of the day from @janerosenzweig.bsky.social's The Important Work:

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At my high school no one is talking about AI
But everyone is using it
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Aug 29
I agree! Hope you enjoy.
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Sarah Emsley @sarahemsley.bsky.social · Aug 28
“If information felt unmanageable to Francis Bacon and Virginia Woolf, how could it not feel that way to us? In our age of infinite scrolls, we need the commonplace book more than ever—to capture and make sense of our reading before it all melts back into the digital soup.”
– Jillian Hess
Reflections on Noted's 3rd Anniversary
And Why Now is the Perfect Time to Start a Commonplace Book
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