Jane's Life

Was Jane Austen Vaccinated?

Was Jane Austen Vaccinated?

Donna Fletcher Crow discusses whether or not Austen would have been vaccinated

Who was the Inspiration Behind Mr. Darcy?

Who was the real life Mr Darcy?

Did Jane Austen Find Love in Lyme?

Miss Austen cuts a tantalizing figure. She is kept from us at arms-length by the span of about two centuries as well as by the protective arms of h...

Harris Bigg-Wither’s Marriage Proposal – An Ongoing Mystery?

In the late autumn of 1802, Jane and Cassandra Austen, then living in Bath, went to stay with their good friends, Catherine and Alethea Bigg at Man...

Cassandra Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Queen Victoria and a Destruction of Letters

Margaret Mills shares her thoughts on Jane Austen's sister Cassandra's destruction of their correspondence.

Jane Austen's China and the Steventon Archaeological Dig

The true evens that inspired Jane Odiwe's 'Project Darcy'

Jane's Niece: Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 -1877)

Jonathan Rowe looks at Catherine Anne Hubback for the Brislington Conservation & Historical Society

Eliza de Feuillide: Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin'

Eliza Hancock was born 22nd December 1761 in Calcutta, India, to her mother Philadelphia Austen and her father Tysoe Saul Hancock, a physician with...

Madame LaTournelle and the Abbey School

Was the Abbey School an inspiration to Jane? Constance Hill investigates.

Fanny Austen Knight (Knatchbull)

You are inimitable, irresistible. You are the delight of my life. Such letters, such entertaining letters, as you have lately sent! such a descript...