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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 insp...
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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 t...
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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 Au...
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Our Books of the Year 2016
It's been an extremely varied 12 months here at the Jane Austen Gift Shop as far as reading matter goes... Our biggest sellers have been the Jan...
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Why Jane Austen? A simple, yet complex answer...
By Gabrielle Lesage Around my friends I am known as the Austen Fanatic. Among my academic peers I am the Austen Enthusiast. I wear these titles ...
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The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon
The stunning new Jane Austen Peacock brooch, now available from our online gift shop, celebrates the long-standing association between this mos...
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Illustrating Jane Austen: The Artist's Challenge
Cassandra Chouinard discusses her recent illustrations for Sense and Sensibility.
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Hannah More and Jane Austen: Mary Crawford and Jane Fairfax
Arnie Perlstein examines “the sale—not quite of human flesh—but of human intellect”
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In the Kitchen with Jane Austen
How using period recipes helped me understand Jane Austen a bit better...
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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...
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