Was Jane Austen Vaccinated?
Donna Fletcher Crow discusses whether or not Austen would have been vaccinated
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Jane Austen's China and the Steventon Archaeological Dig
The true evens that inspired Jane Odiwe's 'Project Darcy'
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Jane's Niece: Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 -1877)
Jonathan Rowe looks at Catherine Anne Hubback for the Brislington Conservation & Historical Society
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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...
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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...
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Madame LaTournelle and the Abbey School
Was the Abbey School an inspiration to Jane? Constance Hill investigates.
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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...
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Madam Anne Lefroy
Anne Lefroy, known as Madam Lefroy, was born in 1749 to the Brydges family at Wootton Court, near Canterbury. When George Austen was made rector a...
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