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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...

Sense and Sensibility Church To Reopen

Image from the Visit Devon website The village church in Upton Pyne near Exeter is believed to be the setting for the marriage of Elinor and Edward in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. The me...

The Owners of That First Edition of Persuasion Found

A mystery solved, and a book in safe hands.

Jane Austen on the £10...and Ada Lovelace on the £5?

Jane Austen is on the new £10!

Curtis Sittenfeld on Austen and Feminism

Curtis Sittenfeld says she didn't set out to write a feminist take on Austen, but ended up doing that anyway.