A house in Chawton – now the Jane Austen House Museum – was Jane Austen’s home where she wrote almost all of her novels. It has been preserved and restored for Jane Austen lovers to experience. Not only is it ...
Abbie Jaggers sat down with eighteenth-century literature specialist John Mullan to chat about reading Jane Austen novels aloud, the characters in Austen’s books who love to read, and why academics love Emma. Listen to the fascinating full interview here: ...
Even 200 years on since her death, Austen’s advice on love, relationships and marriage is just as pertinent, because despite never marrying herself, all of her novels have love and relationships at their core. They are powerful stories that still feel ...
For many people, Austen’s works are a shrine to genteel Regency manners and pastimes. They are full of romantic escapism, dashing heroes and feisty heroines. D. W. Harding, a literary critic writing in 1940, wrote an essay called ‘Regulated Hatred’ where ...
“It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ride of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. She ...
Jane Austen novels are all about the difficulty of finding a partner worthy of marriage. It’s not something that could be taken lightly, and the difficult economic and social position of women during the Regency era often pressured them into marriage ...
We’re kicking off our celebrations for the Jane Austen Bicentenary with a quiz! Each question has a clip from the Jane Austen Naxos audiobooks, so you can really put your Austen-quote knowledge to the test! (Make sure you’ve got headphones or speakers ...
This article was written by Richard Bower, Durham University and Simon John James, Durham University. It was originally published on The Conversation Literature professor Simon John James and physicist Richard ...
I listened to the first Harry Potter audiobook when it was released in November 1999. Despite the growing technological panic at the cusp of the twenty-first century, my parents only owned one CD player. It was too big to move from ...
It sounds like a cliché, but I’ve always loved to read. My journey into personhood was guided less by those around me and more by the worlds I inhabited and the people I met on my fictional travels. I wanted ...