Jane Austen News

Jane Austen News - October 2016

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  The Jane Austen Centre Wins Award   The Jane Austen News are very pleased to announce that on Wednesday (19th October 2016), the Jane Austen Centre was awa...

Jane Austen News - Issue 39

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  A Story of Friendship and Letters Our centre guide, Lizzy Bennet, recently had three delightful ladies in one of her tour groups and they shared a wonder...

Jane Austen News - Issue 38

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  Stanford Says Reading Austen = Awesome Brain Exercise  Now this is the kind of exercise the Jane Austen News could really become addicted to. Researchers at...

Jane Austen News - Issue 37

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  Big Money for New Austen Tenners?  On the 13th of September the UK's new five pound note was released for general use, and they caused a stir for those luc...

Jane Austen News - Issue 36

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  Jane Austen's Daily Quote App Good news! The android version of the Jane Austen quote app has been updated! As with the older version of the app it i...

Jane Austen News - Issue 35

What's the Jane Austen News this week?  Pride and Prejudice At The Ballet       Stage adaptations of Jane Austen have become increasingly popular in recent years (we look at one such adapta...

Jane Austen News - Issue 34

  What's the Jane Austen News this week? The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen - Volume II   The author Collins Hemingway officially launched his new book; The Marriage of Miss Jane Austen Volume II ...

Jane Austen News - Issue 33

What's the Jane Austen News this week?   Colin Firth Doesn't Think Mr Darcy Is Attractive Colin Firth has confessed that he doesn’t understand why Mr Darcy is so popular. In fact he said that he t...

Jane Austen News - Issue 32

What's the Jane Austen News this week?   Amazing Librarians Up For Award        Libraries are wonderful, magical places, and one of the things that helps the to be such is their dedicated libr...

Jane Austen News - Issue 31

What's the Jane Austen News this week?   Lucy Worsley Films Jane Austen Documentary       On August the 3rd Lucy Worsley, who has presented programmes including The First Georgians: The Germ...

Jane Austen News - Issue 30

What's the Jane Austen News this week?   Are Retellings A Good Idea? Austen & Shakespeare      You have probably heard that in 2013 HarperCollins launched the Austen Project, commissioni...

Jane Austen News - Issue 29

What's the Jane Austen News this week?   Austen and Shakespeare - Pop Culture Throughout Time The new exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington called Will & Jane: Shakespeare...