Hi! I’m Devoney Looser, Regents Professor at Arizona State U. I also go by Stone Cold Jane Austen, especially on roller skates. My most recent book is a biography, Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës. I’ve written or edited nine other books, including The Making of Jane Austen. Check out my lessons on Jane Austen on The Great Courses, Wondrium, and Audible. Then sign up for my free author newsletter on history’s strong women, from Jane Austen to roller derby. Thanks for connecting here!
Books in order of publication:
Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (1995)
Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (1997)
British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (2001)
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (2008)
Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (2015)
A Gossip’s Story, and A Legendary Tale (1796). Charlottesville, VA: Valancourt Books. (2015)
The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. (2017)
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811). New York: Penguin Random House. (2019)
The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (2019)
Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës. New York: Bloomsbury US. (2022)
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