Jane Austen's Work

Jane Austen: Why do Millennials Love her so Much?

Why does Austen have such enduring popularity with young people?

Don't Insult Your Children, Give Them Jane Austen

 by Allison Burr My kids saw that scoundrel Willoughby at Chic-Fil-A last night. Or so they thought.  We had just finished our chicken sandwiches and waffle fries and were headed off to Andrew Pe...

Jane Austen: Family Therapist?

Patrice Sarath discusses the ins and outs of Austen's great family dynamics

Finding Happiness, Austen Style, with Emma, our favourite matchmaker

Feeling bummed out? Let Emma cheer you up!

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

by Alice Chandler How did I come to write Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie: A Jane Austen Mystery for Children? Jane Austen has been part of my life for almost all of my life, ever sinc...

A Dangerous Intimacy: Mansfield Park and Playing at Love

by Lona Manning A group of young people, passing the rainy weeks of autumn together in “a dull country house,” decide to entertain themselves by staging a play. So what’s so wrong about that, as ...

Meeting Young Jane Austen

"It’s exciting to be contributing to the Jane Austen 200 celebrations, with performances of Young Jane and Meeting Miss Austen, my adaptations inspired by Austen’s Juvenilia." - Cecily O'Neill The...

Yours Sincerely: Jane Austen's Heroes

Yours Sincerely: Jane Austen's Heroes Original content by Rhian Fender “There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and th...

Are Jane Austen's Heroines Ideal Women?

By Jenni Waugh I recently replied to an email enquiry from a student who was looking for an opinion on the question "To what extent does Jane Austen present her heroines as ideal women within their...

The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon

The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon

Annotating Jane Austen: What Would Elinor Do?

Margaret C. Sullivan takes an in depth look at Sense and Sensibility

Illustrating Jane Austen: The Artist's Challenge

Cassandra Chouinard discusses her recent illustrations for Sense and Sensibility.