Jane Austen's Work

All Roads Lead to Austen

The Enduring Inspiration of Miss Jane Austen Now and Forever

All Roads Lead to Austen

The Enduring Inspiration of Miss Jane Austen Now and Forever

We're delighted to be able to bring you this fantastic blog post by Claudine Pepe; blogger and devoted Austen fan, in which she asks fellow Austene...

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The Enduring Love For Jane Austen

By Jon Michail Jane Austen passed away 200 years ago, yet the names of Lizzy Bennet and Mr Darcy are familiar even to people who have never...

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Oxford asks: Which Jane?

by Elizabeth Jane Timms As part of the 200th anniversary events to commemorate Jane Austen’s death, the Bodleian Libraries launched its majo...

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Is Jane Austen a Great Writer?

Is Jane Austen a Great Writer? - By Linore Rose Burkard Quora is growing in popularity. What is Quora? A forum where anyone can ask a questi...

Caroline Kerr Taylor

Jane and Cassandra: Extraordinary Sisters

by Caroline Kerr Taylor Jane Austen was born in December 1775, the seventh child of Rev. and Mrs. Austen. Mrs. Austen nursed each of her bab...

Charlotte Lucas

The Complex Mind of Elizabeth Bennet

by Seth Snow We have learned, and continue to learn, that a person seems to have both conscious and subconscious thoughts. Conscious though...

Adaptation

Why Adapt Persuasion for Musical Theatre?

By Harold Taw “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginn...

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Jane Austen’s Life and Impact on Society

by Gracelyn Anderson Jane Austen entered the world fashionably late by one month on December 16, 1775, as one of the seven Austen children. ...

Catherine Morland

Happiness, Austen Style: Read It Out, Act It Out, Dance It Out

Welcome to the first of a multi-part series of posts on how to lift yourself out of the blues, Austen style. Kindly reproduced here with permissio...

Helena Kelly

An Interview With Helena Kelly, Author of Jane Austen the Secret Radical

An Interview With Helena Kelly, Author of Jane Austen the Secret Radical Helena Kelly's book, Jane Austen the Secret Radical, began an interest...

Mr Bingley

Parbake & Prose: Making Mr Bingley's soup

Parbake & Prose is a project created by sibling bibliophile and chef team, Daniella Rossi and Eric Upper. The concept is pretty simple:...

Alice Chandler

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 pa...

Juvenilia

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...