Jane Austen's Books and Characters

Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness & True Love

Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness & True Love

Austen Superpowers: Self-Awareness & True Love Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the au...

Austen Superpowers: Finding Yours With Anne Elliot

Anne Elliot: A quiet force to be reckoned with. Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the autho...

Meeting Mr Bennet

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Full of wit, humour and lackadaisical nature, Mr Bennet...

Mr Bennet's Bride, by Emma Wood

It’s a pleasure to have a chance to connect with other Jane Austen enthusiasts. Like many people, my passion for Jane Austen grew hugely with t...

Inner voices: The voices of Anne and Austen in Persuasion

By Camilla Magnotti Komatz with illustrations from Persuasion by C.E. Brock Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last finished novel, is probably the one in...

He was only Sir Walter: the opening of Persuasion

By Giulia Magnotti Komatz with illustrations from Persuasion by C.E. Brock The first few paragraphs of Persuasion describe Sir Walter Elliot’s ...

Mrs Bennet’s Round Robin, by Viv Cavallo

To all our dear neighbours in Hertfordshire... What a wonderful year the Bennet family has enjoyed with three of my girls successfully married! ...

Elizabeth Bennet information from the Jane Austen Centre

Elizabeth Bennet Elizabeth Bennet, or Lizzy Bennet, or Eliza, is the main character of the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice (1813). She is a ...

Pride and Prejudice information from the Jane Austen Centre

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, published in 1813. Started in 1796 as First Impressions. Pride and Prejudice is about the Bennet family

The influence of Jane Austen's social background on two of her novels

an essay, by Jana Schneider

Annotating Jane Austen: What Would Elinor Do?

Margaret C. Sullivan takes an in depth look at Sense and Sensibility

Creating A Regency Christmas

Author Amanda Grange sets the scene in her latest book.

Why Jane Austen? Why Now?

A viewer questions the need for so many adaptations of Jane Austen's Work By Arti of Ripple Effects