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The Jane Austen Society of North America held its annual convention last weekend at the Brooklyn Marriott, where lecturers like Cornel West discussed the meeting’s themes of power, money and sex.

“Attendance was over 700, the event lasted three days, and the daytime dress code for many ran to pale Regency dresses, demure bonnets and straw baskets to hold anything that wouldn’t fit into a period-correct reticule,” writes Jennifer Schuessler.