VILLETTE. This episode is all about Villette. Cut down from 2 hours, we never actually get around to comparing and contrasting Lucy Snowe and Anne Elliot. You'll have to wait for that mini-episode to drop later on this week. In the meantime, enjoy our meltdown over this classic piece of literature.

Guys, we're finally going to talk about Persuasion...

Lauren and Hannah get giggly while trying to come to terms with their feelings about poetry. Emily200 plans are revealed and Lauren interviews Rita Maria Martinez, the author of The Jane and Bertha in Me, a book of poetry inspired by Jane Eyre.

Follow Rita on Twitter: @CubanBronteite

Check out her website at ComeOnHome.Org

Lauren interviews the manager of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath while Hannah reminisces about her time there, and the lies she used to tell while giving the tour ;)

Check out the Jane Austen Centre on the internets!

https://www.janeausten.co.uk/

Twitter: @JaneAustenBath

Listen as two sick gals talk about YOUR favorite reads of 2017! Later on in the show, we interview our new best friend Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen and Professor of English at Arizona State University. AND reveal 2 of our book club selections for 2018!

Follow Devoney on Twitter @DevoneyLooser, @Making_Jane and pick up her book on Amazon!

* Please note that this podcast is not sponsored by Amazon, but we'd like it to be.

This week, we interview Aydrea Walden, creator/writer/star of the webseries - Black Girl in a Big Dress. BGIABG is a series about an African American Anglophile cosplayer in love with the Victorian Era who's trying to bring a fantasy courtship from her re-entactment events into the real world.

Find Aydrea on Twitter @BlkGirlBigDress

Watch the series here - http://www.blackgirlinabigdress.com/

Welcome to the first installment of our Naughty Bonnets series! In this episode, we are joined by Summer Sparacin and Mary Kravenas. These fine ladies read the naughty versions of Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice and are here to tell us all about them!

Our intro gets seriously derailed by the engagement of a certain royal, but don't worry - we get into chapters 44-52 of North and South and our listener comments!

Lauren and Hannah ramble on about chapters 33 - 43 of North and South. They completely forget when Edith had her baby (anyone?), and come to say goodbye to more than a few characters. As always, our listeners bring it with the comments!

We interview the lovely Lacey Shaw, creator of Maggie Hale's Corner, a modern day adaptation of North and South. We discuss the updating Margaret Hale to 2017, what makes North and South a timeless story, and how to go about creating a literary inspired webseries.

Check out Maggie Hale's Corner on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxlTS0P-Uq6rbNqL64PMPw

And on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/MaggieHCorner