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 ...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that not all fictional couples are created equal. Some of them are sweeping romances that you can’t stop thinking about for weeks, while others add tension and drama to a book and are, quite frankly, just ...