SISTERLY devotion is the theme to so much of what we write about here at TSP, and our Sister Marion says it’s perhaps never better illustrated than by the December 16th birthday girl, Jane Austen (1775), and the astonishing act of sisterhood performed by her sister after the death of the famous writer. Read Marion’s take.
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Jane Austen
By Marion Roach Smith
AH, THOSE JANEITES. They’ve gone and won our hearts again, this time by cozying up to us on a topic we love, by serving up an essay contest whose theme this year is our theme every day: siblings. [click to continue…]
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JANE AUSTEN WAS BORN 233 years ago today, but when TSP thinks of her we cannot help but also think of her big sister, Cassandra, who played such a key role in Jane’s life and success. [click to continue…]
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First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
