Op Eds & Essays
Pamela Jane is an author of over thirty children’s books, and an essayist whose work has appeared in The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, Writer's Digest, The Independent, and The Writer. Pamela has also published humor in The Daily Drunk, Erma Bombeck, Brevity, The Satirist, and others.
Photo: The author in 1975 by Jun Kobashigawa
Jane Austen would have killed me off
Seriously, do you know anyone who admits to identifying with the tiresome Mrs. Bennet? Not to mention hypochondriacal Mr. Woodhouse in “Emma” or much-put-upon Mary Musgrove of “Persuasion.”
Are we back to the days of Jane Austen, when maternal death was a regular risk?
Beneath the opulent films and dazzling brilliance of Austen’s prose lurks a darker reality.
Woodstock: Miracle or Mess?
If the twinkling fairytale forest was a medieval fair, this was Dante’s inferno.