Jane Austen Media Reviews

Effusions of Fancy Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New

Effusions of Fancy Consisting of Annotated Sketches from the Life of Jane Austen in a Style Entirely New by Jane Odiwe I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can hav...

A History of the Englishman's Food and An Interview with Wellington's Cook.

Your Most Obedient Servant: Cook to the Duke of Wellington by James Thornton What an odd little book! A few years ago this written interview between Lord Frederick Fitzclarence and a cook call...

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Controversial Regency Authors

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin Mary Wollstonecraft was an excessively unsympathetic character - she was a user (in modern parlance anyway), she manipulated, she was...

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...

Fashions of the Regency Period

Jane Austen Fashion by Penelope Byrde This delightful book is the work of Bath’s Costume Museum Curator, Penelope Byrd. It takes an in-depth look at fashions of the period, care of clothes, and ...

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...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the iPhone: Fun, but faulty...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a franchise in possession of a large fanbase must be in want of a video game adaptation. However hasty or flawed the execution of said game may be, this ...

Chat with Jane Austen Fans Around the World

e who’s ever searched for Jane Austen on the internet has, at some point, come across the The Republic of Pemberley. As the oldest and largest Austen Forum, they are known far and wide for th...

Digital Jane: Jane Austen E-books online

In Jane Austen's day, books were sold in a rather humble state. The pages were removed from the printing press, folded, sewn, and bound in plain paper-covered cardboard, the folds uncut. Th...