Lona Manning

Lona Manning is an author and journalist. She writes about Jane Austen at her blog, ‘Clutching My Pearls,’ and her articles about the Ritual Abuse Panic are available at crimemagazine.com.

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The Stanford Rape Hoax

Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.

Lona Manning

3 Apr 2023 · 21 min read

In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.

Lona Manning

26 Apr 2021 · 12 min read

What Is #DisruptTexts?

The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”

Lona Manning

9 Dec 2020 · 9 min read

Commemorating Mary

Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.

Lona Manning

18 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice

The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon.

Lona Manning

16 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane

The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.

Lona Manning

6 Apr 2019 · 26 min read

Lona Manning

The Stanford Rape Hoax

Interrogating Jane

What Is #DisruptTexts?

Commemorating Mary

The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice

Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane