Jane's Life and Work

The effects of the family’s misfortunes on Jane Austen's death

By Caroline Kerr Taylor 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death. She is one of the world’s most popular literary giants. It was a tragic loss that she died at 41, just as her star ...

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 Austen’s Fame and Fortune, Now and Then

Caroline Kerr Taylor explores Jane Austen's financial and critical success

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.