Younger Sons in Jane Austen’s England
This guest article is written by Rory Muir - a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide and a renowned expert on British history. You...
Read moreThis guest article is written by Rory Muir - a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide and a renowned expert on British history. You...
Read moreOn Thursday 8 August 1799, Jane Austen’s aunt, Jane Leigh Perrot, visited the Haberdashery Warehouse at Number 1 Bath Street, near or opposite the...
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Read moreJane Austen Gives Literary Advice As She Visits Dawlish by Donna Fletcher Crow Young (and experienced) writers are always advised to seek outside...
Read moreProposing Without Proposing The tradition of Bachelor's Day - where women can propose to men on February 29th, comes once every four years, an...
Read moreThe 10 Places All Austen Fans Should Visit Bustle has recently compiled a list of the top ten places that fans of Jane Austen NEED to go to, a...
Read moreJane Dates in the 21st Century Finally this week, at the Jane Austen News we really rather enjoyed this satiri...
Read moreJane Austen Letter Remnants When a private US collector paid £16,000 in September 2017 for a book of historical autographs (incl...
Read moreJane Austen Nuncheon 10 Weird and Wonderful Things you Probably Don’t Know About her World For more than two hundred years, Jane Austen’s books ...
Read moreHistorical Knotwork - A Naval CV of Sorts This sea chest becket (handle) is exactly the sort which would have been found on the naval chests u...
Read moreby Alice Chandler, author of Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie I do apologize for the pun in my title. The Olifant I refer to is Marga...
Read moreThe Trial of Mrs Jane Leigh Perrot - the Primary Sources by David Pugsley Discussions of Aunt Jane’s trial and the question whether she was...
Read moreby Rhian Helen Fender “Mrs Edwards thinks you are a child still. But we know better than that, don’t we.” So began the 2008 televisi...
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