Jane Austen Media Reviews

Medically Speaking

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine by Roy Porter I decided, given the variation in literature available, to read and review three books on medicine by Roy Porter at once. They are thi...

The Jane Austen Mysteries

The Jane Austen Mysteries series by Stephanie Barron feature Jane Austen as an amateur detective, presented as entries in journals recently "discovered" in the basement of an old house previously o...

A Jane Austen Education

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen

A review of Sarah Jane Downing's history of fashion by Vic Sanborn

Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love

Dear Jane Austen: A Heroine’s Guide to Life and Love When we reviewed Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating a while back, we remarked that reading the advice contained therein was like receiving a lette...

Jane Austen’s Sewing Box

Jane Austen’s Sewing Box: Craft Projects & Stories from Jane Austen’s Novels by Jennifer Forest This is a lovely, sumptuous book. When it first arrived, I did a quick skim – it is filled wit...

Two Guys Read Jane Austen

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

Claire Tomalin and Carol Shields on Jane Austen's Life

Reviewed By Arti of Ripple Effects

The Girl From Botany Bay

The Girl from Botany Bay by Carolly Erickson Mary Broad had a brief moment of celebrity, and this is probably one of the only reasons we know so much about the life and times of not just Bro...

The Art of Regency War

British Military Spectacle : From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea By Scott Hughs Myerly It was only after I had read some way into this book that I realised that it must have been some ...

101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen

We must confess that we expected something rather different from 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Jane Austen. We expected something more like a list of overlooked scenes from the novel, or explan...

The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

Seldom have I so anticipated the publication of a book and The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World certainly does not disappoint. Part tongue in cheek “How To” guide ...