Jane Austen News

Austen: Keeping it real for 200 years

Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is also the author of the popular Jane Austen Addict novels.   On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, wha...

Jane Austen News - Issue 76

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Austen's Letter Makes A Fortune!    We mentioned in last week's Jane Austen News that a letter written by Jane to her niece Anna Lefroy in 1812 was ...

Jane Austen News - Issue 75

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Austen Letter For Sale   A letter written by Jane Austen is due to be auctioned for the first time on July the 11th. Sotheby's auction house have t...

Behind the Scenes of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra's Persuasion Musical

Barbara Landis, artistic director of Chamber Opera Tours, found Jane Austen’s language so perfect that it begged to be adapted to theatrical lyrics. She felt that the text would be most appropr...

Jane Austen News - Issue 74

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Austen Holy Grail Worth Half A Million   "“Although there are attractive editions of her novels published in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, ...

Jane Austen News - Issue 73

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Authors On Austen Up For Auction   Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, among others, have created revealing handwritten homages about Jane A...

Jane Austen News - Issue 72

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     The Mother of the Modern Novel Professor Kathryn Sutherland is keen to see Jane Austen praised, not as the queen of romance novels, but rather "as a pio...

Finding Happiness, Austen Style: Lift Yourself Up with Persuasion

Welcome to the second of a multi-part series of posts on how to lift yourself out of the blues, Austen style. Kindly reproduced here with permission from its author, Laurie Viera Rigler, who is al...

Jane Austen News - Issue 71

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     A Writer With Friends? Heaven Forbid!  Authors Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have recently seen their new book A Secret Sisterhood: The hidde...

Jane Austen News - Issue 70

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Words for A Wedding To Be Auctioned After seeing an announcement in a newspaper announcing the marriage of of Mr Gell of Eastbourne to Miss Gill, Jane A...

Jane Austen News - Issue 69

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     You Could Live In Longbourn    If you happen to have a spare £9 million lying around then Longbourn, home of the Bennet family, could be yours! Lu...

Jane Austen News - Issue 68

What's the Jane Austen News this week?     Mind the Ha-Ha! - Mansfield Park is Deciphered    David M. Shapard is an American historian with a longstanding interest in Austen and her world. He...