Emma Inspires

Includes a full treatment of the publication of Mathew Carey’s 1816 Philadelphia edition of Emma, answering many of the questions posed by David Gilson (2002), as well as an in-depth study of the Countess of Dalhousie’s reading and book ownership.

Juliette Wells, Reading Austen in America (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). 

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Offers an overview of the publication of Mathew Carey’s 1816 Philadelphia edition of Emma, plus evidence of its reception by  early nineteenth-century American readers.

Juliette Wells, “The 1816 Philadelphia Emma: A Forgotten Edition and Its Readers,” Persuasions 38 (2016). 

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Accompanies the Folger Shakespeare Library’s exhibit “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity,” August 6 to November 6, 2016, which featured both rare editions and ephemera from Goucher College Library.

Janine Barchas and Kristina Straub, “Curating Will & Jane,” Eighteenth-Century Life (April 2016): 1-35.

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A wide-ranging examination of the publication and international reception of Emma, which included letters exchanged a between the Goucher collector Alberta Burke and the Austen bibliographer David Gilson.

Gillian Dow, “Jane Austen’s Emma at 200: From English Village to Global Appeal,” Persuasions 37 (2016).

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A new interpretation, drawn from a book project on Austen’s heroines, of Emma Woodhouse as embodying ancient English ideals of welcome.

Kathleen Anderson, “Emma as Medieval Queen: Jane Austen’s Glorification of Female Hospitality,” Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Goucher College, February 17, 2016.

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A reader-friendly annotated edition of Emma that includes images from the historic editions at Goucher College Library.

Juliette Wells, ed., Emma, by Jane Austen (New York: Penguin Classics, 2015). 

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An overview of Emma in translation from Austen’s day until ours, with several images of book covers drawn from the Goucher collection.

Gillian Dow, “Translations,” in The Cambridge Companion to Emma, ed. Peter Sabor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 166–85.

A lavishly illustrated tour of how Austen's novels have been packaged, with many full-color examples from the Goucher College Library collection.

Margaret C. Sullivan, Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2014).

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Gillian Dow discusses the effect of quintessential "Englishness" on the translation of Austen's works into other languages and cultures. As associate professor and lecturer of English literature at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Dow has extensively lectured and published about Austen and her works. Two of Dow's upcoming publishing projects concern Austen's writings in translation, how the author's language is constructed by her translators, and the global reception of her adapted works.

Gillian Dow, “Translating Austen; or When Jane Goes Abroad,” Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Goucher College, February 7, 2012.

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A research essay by then-undergraduate student Sarah Kendall, completed for an English/Book Studies course in archival methods at Goucher College.

Sarah Kendall, “How Emma Travels: By Letters, Hands, and Libraries,” Archive Journal 2 (2012). 

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Juliette Wells, Goucher College's Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010, discusses why present-day Austen fans so often choose to feature the author in their fiction and nonfiction writing.

Juliette Wells, “For the Love of Jane Austen," Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Lecture, Goucher College, February 17, 2010.

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A collation of the first London (December 1815) and first and second Philadelphia (1816 and 1833) editions of Emma, with a statement of what was then yet to be discovered about Carey’s 1816 publication.

David Gilson, “Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ in America: Notes on the Text of the First and Second American Editions,” The Review of English Studies ns 53.212 (2002): 517–25.