Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Patriarchy Critiqued or Defended?

Eileen Manion

The Slow & Devious Process of Change

­­­A Lament for the Women of Afghanistan

A Short History Of Hate

When I was a kid, the Irish were my enemy. They would come tearing down the hill from their Catholic school…

Jane Austen in China

Barbara Confino

On Status

A Conversation Between Friends

During this pandemic year, Barbara Confino and Eileen Manion, friends for several decades, have held a weekly phone seminar to discuss books read…

My Lillian

Barbara Confino

She never complained. She didn’t like being a ‘sissy’.

Murder Triumphant

Eileen Manion and Barbara Confino discuss The Talented Mr. Ripley

On Reading Secondhand Time  The Last of the Soviets

Eileen Manion