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News for Austen Enthusiasts : March 2021

Happy Easter to all who observe, and welcome to April! March was a quieter, but still fruitful month for Austen news. Let's see what's been going on! Brandreth fronts new Austen documentary ...

News for Janeites : February 2021

All the Austen news from February 2021!

Austen Essay collection published Open Access

The late, great Nora Bartlett's writings on Jane Austen have been made available for public perusal!

News for Austen Enthusiasts- December 2020

Happy New Year! We hope you have found your own ways to celebrate the new year in these strange times, whether that meant cosying up with family or having a Pride and Prejudice marathon. Here's eve...

News for Austen Enthusiasts - November 2020

For an almost two and a half century old lady, Austen somehow manages to keep making the news. Here's everything you might have missed in November.

Austen's works to get the CW treatment

The CW just announced a new Austen anthology show- will you be tuning in?

A Jane Austen Reading Room

  The Minneapolis Institute of Art has restyled their Queen Anne period living room into an Austen-inspired literary retreat in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Emma. Thei...

News for Austen Enthusiasts: October 2020

For an almost two and a half century old lady, Austen somehow manages to keep making the news. Here's everything you might have missed in October.

Interviewing The Cast of Sanditon

As the date of the airing of the first episode of Sanditon draws ever nearer (Sunday 25th August, at 9pm on ITV) the cast of Sanditon and the director of the new series have been doing a series of ...

An Evening of Emma in Fort George

An Evening of Emma in Fort George At the Jane Austen News we love hearing about celebrations of Jane that happen all around the world. Because as much as we might wish all of Jane's fans could com...

Will We Soon Be Going Into The Next Regency Era?

The first Regency period ran from 1811 to 1820, and covered the years in which King George III had to give his full powers to his son, King George IV, because of his health. (What the exact illness...

Spreading Literature With A Floating Library

This week we came across an article about a rather unusual library. We're familiar with mobile libraries which are housed in buses, but we hadn't come across a floating library before! And certainl...