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Jane Austen's Regency World
How Did Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice Become A Christmas Story?
HO, HO, HO…how did Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice become a Christmas story? Devoney looser investigates
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102 - November/December 2019
Jane Austen's Regency World
Jane's Beloved Friend
Judith Stove introduces her new biography of Anne Lefroy
4 min |
102 - November/December 2019
Jane Austen's Regency World
Women Of Peterloo
MEN WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES DEMANDING REFORM IN AUGUST 1819. MANY WOMEN CAME TO MANCHESTER FOR A DAY OF PROTEST, AND NOT ALL OF THEM MADE IT HOME, AS SUE WILKES REPORTS
8 min |
102 - November/December 2019
Jane Austen's Regency World
Darcy's Picture Gallery
WHAT MIGHT ELIZABETH BENNET HAVE SEEN AS SHE WANDERED THROUGH THE CORRIDORS OF PEMBERLEY? VICTORIA C SKELLY CONSIDERS HOW THE OWNERS OF GREAT ESTATES IN JANE AUSTEN’S TIME VIEWED ART
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102 - November/December 2019
Jane Austen's Regency World
Austen's Festive Music
A LARGE COLLECTION OF MUSIC WRITTEN OUT BY JANE AUSTEN REVEALS SOME POPULAR NURSERY RHYMES AND HER CHRISTMAS FAVOURITES, WRITES ROS OSWALD. PICTURES FROM THE NOVELS, BY CE BROCK
7 min |
102 - November/December 2019
Jane Austen's Regency World
Candour And Comfort
Female friendships outside the family group rarely feature in Jane Austen’s fiction, yet she and Cassandra enjoyed a close relationship with the three youngest daughters of many down park, Hampshire as Hazel Jones explores
6 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Keeping The Faith
Quakers, Catholics and Methodists fared badly compared with Anglicans in the Christian Britain of a Jane Austen’s time, writes Penelope Friday
6 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Austen In Australia
The Jane Austen society of Australia
4 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Culture Club
The Jane Austen society of the UK
3 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Last Days In Winchester
Jane Austen left Chawton on may 24, 1817, to seek medical help in the nearby city of Winchester. Elizabeth Jane Timms traces those final weeks of her life. line drawings by Ellen Hill c1901
5 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
The Archbishop's Bones
An important discovery was made recently in a London church. Maggie Lane was quick to spot the connection with Jane Austen
9 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Bath Time
The 17th Jane Austen festival, which takes place in bath in september, includes more than 80 events, as Jackie Herring explains. pictures from last year’s festival by Owen Benson
3 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
A New Online Face
The Jane Austen society of North America by Iris Lutz
3 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Guest Essay
The meals that Jane Austen and her family would have enjoyed have been recreated in a splendid new book, dining with Jane Austen, as Julienne Gehrer explains
5 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Inside The Abbey
Jane Austen’s gothic novel was published shortly after her death, but it had been a long time in preparation. Liz Philosophos Cooper traces the history of this most unusual of Austen’s novels.
8 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Up To Oxford
Two of Jane Austen’s brothers were students at the University of Oxford. Felicity Day explores university education, Georgian style
9 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Jane And The Duke
Military conflict was never far away during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Collins Hemingway explores its impact and a uncovers a remarkable connection between jane and a duke of wellington
6 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Jane In Paradise
The Jane Austen society of North America
3 min |
89 - September/October 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Obituary
The press announcements of Jane Austen’s death in 1817 were brief and failed to do her justice. here is how her obituary might look if it appeared in the Times of London today
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88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
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3 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
The Mourning After
A Death in the family meant wearing the right clothes and following the correct etiquette. Sue Wilkes reports on how Jane Austen wrote about mourning and how she was mourned by her family
6 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Darcy On Screen
Laurence Olivier was the wartime heart-throb and Colin firth set the modern-day standard, but Devoney Looser has uncovered an earlier and long-neglected celluloid Mr Darcy
5 min |
88 – July/August 2017
Jane Austen's Regency World
Kentish Places
The Jane Austen society of the UK by Vivian Branson
4 min |