Happy Mother’s Day. Let’s talk about bad mothers and Jane Austen.

Austen shows us that sometimes the best family is the one we create for ourselves.

Hello dear friends,

Happy spring, happy end-of-semester wherever you are, and happy Mum’s day to all the mothers, daughters, and the people who support them. 

But let’s also talk with the people who are not mothers, and throw in a reminder that not only was Jane Austen never a mother; she also does not have a lot of fantastic things to say about motherhoo…