Inquiring readers,
Earlier this year, I met author Sarah Emsley online, after she made an observation about something I’d written on Jane Austen’s World blog: she then revealed that she visited this site often. I was thrilled, and during our ensuing online discussions I agreed to write an article for her “Summer Party for Sense and Sensibility.” My article, published August 2nd, is entitled “Mrs. Dashwood’s Journey of Growth in Sense and Sensibility.”
Knowing that so much has been researched, discussed and written about Austen’s first published novel, I honed in on one of her lesser characters, Mrs. Dashwood, who is well known by Austen’s readers. She plays a pivotal role, but remains largely a side character to her two eldest daughters, She is not written as a one-dimensional character. Nevertheless, she practically disappears from the novel’s plot in the last third of the novel, until events necessitate her return to help move the plot to its conclusion.
Image copyright Sarah Emsley
A Summer Party for Sense an Sensibility can be found at this link. Guest authors include: Maggie Arnold, Finola Austin, Elaine Bander, Deb Barnum, Sandra Barry, Cheryl Bell, Matthew Berry, Diana Birchall, L. Bao Bui, Kathy Cawsey, Lori Mulligan Davis, Lizzie Dunford, Susan Allen Ford, Paul Gordon, Heidi L.M. Jacobs, Natalie Jenner, Hazel Jones, George Justice, Theresa Kenney, Deborah Knuth Klenck, Shawna Lemay, Emily Midorikawa, Jessica Richard, S.K. Rizzolo, Peter Sabor, Vic Sanborn, Marilyn Smulders, Jacqueline Stevens, Emma Claire Sweeney, Joyce Tarpley, Janet Todd, and Deborah Yaffe, along with two teenagers, Gail and Ria, who are reading S&S for the first time.
New contributions are published every Friday and Tuesday, and will continue through the end of summer. Sarah refreshes the page (see the above link) with each new article, and encourages people to leave comments for the author.
The other series she’s featured in past years can be found on her site. They are:
About Sarah Emsley
Screenshot from Ms.Elmsley’s page on Amazon.com
Sarah’s request: Please share the tour with others. Better yet, she’d love for you to write comments to the various contributors. Enjoy!
Jane Austen's World 
Thank you so much, Vic, for your wonderful contribution to the series, and for featuring my summer party (along with the other celebrations I’ve hosted) on your blog! Very kind of you. I’ve enjoyed reading Jane Austen’s World for years and am glad we connected online.
My pleasure, Sarah. I’m still reading the articles published so far for S&S. What a wonderful contribution for Austen aficionados. You also celebrated Pride and Prejudice at 200, which readers can find at this link.
I think my comment disappeared, so this is a test.
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Dear Denise, I tried to find it, but couldn’t. So sorry
I enjoyed your post on the other site.
Hi Denise, I’m not sure if this is the one you were thinking of, but your comment did show up on my website. Glad you enjoyed Vic’s guest post on Mrs. D.
No, it was my comment on Vic’s site which disappeared.
When I took the link to your site, WordPress went wonky, and it’s entirely a WordPress issue I’ve been experiencing on some sites. It won’t recognize me and gives me fits when I try to get back in and then my comments disappear.
Oh, that’s frustrating! I too have encountered some glitches recently, especially with comments.