Love and Friendship: A Middling 3.6-Star Movie

Whit Stillman’s movie based on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan came to town on Friday, May 27th. Austen is believed to have written the novella in the early 1790s, when she was 15 to 20 years old. I have not read either of Austen’s novellas — Love...

Medical Moonshine in Jane Austen’s Day

Medicine and medical therapy during the Regency era fascinate me. Perhaps that isn’t surprising, considering that I have worked with physicians and physician-researchers throughout my career. Unlike Jane Austen and everyone else of her era, however, I have...