Jane's Life and Work

Letters and Identity: Burney’s Evelina and Austen’s Lady Susan

MA student Aisik Maiti discusses the use of epistolary in Lady Susan and Burney's Evelina

Emma Woodhouse and Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Darcy: The Double Standard

Emma Woodhouse from Jane Austen’s Emma and Mr. Darcy of Pride and Prejudice are similar characters, and yet why do we dislike one and want to marry the other? Why is Emma a snob and a meddler while...

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 her beloved sister and closest friend Cassandra who...

Jane Austen's China and the Steventon Archaeological Dig

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

The Rice Portrait

In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger. Elizabeth walked on in quest of the only face whose features would be known to her. -...

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 description of your queer little heart! such a lovely disp...

Jane Austen's Flower Garden

Plant your own garden inspired by those at Chawton Cottage