Jane Austen Media Reviews

Defending Hertfordshire Against the French: Life in Wellington's Army and Napoleon's Prisons

The Armies of Wellington by Philip J. Haythornthwaite For most people this is definitely a reference book to be pulled out as necessary. Haythornthwaite has always shown himself to a be a ma...

Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire

Georgiana : Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman What better material can you start with than the most well-known menage a trois in English history - involving one of the wealthiest men o...

Soldiers of Fortune: First Hand Accounts of Regency Battles

A Dorset Soldier: The Autobiography of Sgt. Williams Lawrence 1790-1869 by Eileen Hathaway (Editor), William Lawrence An excellent book for collectors of Peninsular War accounts, and especial...

The Jane Austen Cookbooks

Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane What was the significance of the pyramid of fruit which confronted Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley? Or of the cold beef eaten by Willoughby on his journey of...

Women's Lives in Georgian England

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England Written by Amanda Vickery What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters...

Sanditon: A Completion

Sanditon By Jane Austen and Another Lady "When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, f...