Austen Pod Squad

In this episode, The Austen Pod Squad takes tea and does a sensory home and garden tour with Kim Wilson, author of the Austen Lifestyle books.

In this episode, the Austen Pod Squad chats with author/artist Kate Evans about her graphic biography of Jane Austen which tells the story of Austen in a highly visual way that tells the story of Austen from birth onward against a historical backdrop and themes of colonialism, slavery, and class in a book that is illustrated in a gentle color palette with embroidery and patchwork quilt motifs.

In 2023, Dr. Wells. Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College, completed a "groundbreaking trio" of books  published by Bloomsbury Academic  that revolutionizes how we understand Austen’s rise to fame. This trilogy includes  Everybody’s Jane , Reading Austen in America , and A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist . Beyond her own writing, sh...

Meg plays musical excerpts from her performance of My Dearest Jane.

Originally from Michigan, Sarah J. Makowski earned her Ph. D. in English Literature from the University of Aachen. Her debut book,  Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen’s Mean Girls  (Prometheus) ,  explores how Jane Austen anticipated modern social scientific findings on female behavior. Called “a must read for Jane Austen fans,”  Bitches in Bonnets  is a con...