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EP84: The Thing About Annuities

2/28/2024

Fanny Dashwood is offering up her services as a financial advisor and actuary, and John Dashwood is ready to be advised. This episode we break down the feckless fiduciary fraternalism of one Mr. John Dashwood, specifically as it relates to annuities.

Selected Source:

Annuity - Oxford Reference.” Accessed February 6, 2024. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198600800.001.0001/acref-9780198600800-e-46?rskey=NISyah&result=12.
Clery, Emma Juliet. Jane Austen: The Banker’s Sister. London: Bb. Biteback, 2017.
Kopf, Edwin W. “The Early History of the Annuity,” n.d.
Skwire, Daniel D. “Actuarial Issues in the Novels of Jane Austen.” North American Actuarial Journal 1, no. 1 (January 1997): 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/10920277.1997.10595593.
Smith, Phoebe A. “‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘The Lady’s Law’: The Failure of Benevolent Paternalism.” CEA Critic 55, no. 3 (1993): 3–25.

Ep83: The Thing About the Ha-Ha

2/7/2024

There's a bit of a brouhaha brewing over at the Sotherton ha-ha, and we've got front row, garden bench seats. Join us as we walk through the various comings and goings of the world's most awkward group date.

Below are a few images that illustrate the type of ha-ha Austen describes in Mansfield Park

Selected Sources

Brodey, Inger Sigrun. “Papas and Ha-Has: Rebellion, Authority, and Landscaping in Mansfield Park.” Persuasions 17 (1995). https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions/no17/brodey/.
Heydt-Stevenson, Jill. “‘Slipping into the Ha-Ha’: Bawdy Humor and Body Politics in Jane Austen’s Novels.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 55, no. 3 (2000): 309–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/2903126.
Repton, Humphry. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late H. Repton, Being His Entire Works on These Subjects, with ... Introduction, ... Analysis, Biographical Notice, Notes and Index by J. C. Loudon, 1840.
Russell, Tilden A. “On ‘Looking over a Ha-Ha.’” The Musical Quarterly 71, no. 1 (1985): 27–37.
Taylor, Patrick. “Ha-Ha.” In The Oxford Companion to the Garden. Oxford University Press, 2006. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198662556.001.0001/acref-9780198662556-e-0714.
Toner, Anne. “Jane Austen, Frances Sheridan, and the Ha-Ha: A New Aﬃliation for Mansﬁeld Park,” no. 32 (n.d.).

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