Jane's Life and Work

Jane Austen For Children: Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie

Alice Chandler writes about her inspiration for her Jane Austen children's book

A Dangerous Intimacy: Mansfield Park and Playing at Love

Author Lona Manning looks closely at Mansfield Park

Meeting Young Jane Austen

Cecily O'Neill looks at some of Austen's earliest work

The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon

The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon

Martha Lloyd: Jane Austen's "Second" Sister

Jane Austen's dearest friend, Martha Lloyd.

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

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. -...

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 the East India Company. Philadelphia was George A...

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

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 at Deane by his Uncle Francis, Francis also sold hi...