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My experiences of the Jane Austen Festival 2017 in Bath

My lovely husband gave me the best present ever for my 30th birthday this year and took me to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, which has...

Today is the day that the new £10 note enters circulation in the UK, featuring the great Jane Austen. The new polymer note is said to be...

During Jane Austen's lifetime, she successfully published four novels - Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813),...

A pivotal plot point of Mansfield Park is the play brought about by the eldest son Tom Bertram whilst his father is away. The...

It's a subject of debate as to whether Jane Austen was a feminist of her time. The definition of feminism according to Google (and...

Living what could be described by some as a fairly uneventful life, there is as you can imagine little information about what Cassandra...

Researching pregnancy in the Georgian/Regency era is no easy feat. Despite the number of large families, it wasn't a subject that was...

Jane Austen wasn't the only writer in her family. Her eldest brother James and elder brother Henry Austen were also writers during their...

An epistolary novel is one written entirely of letters or diary entries. The epistolary format became popular in the 18th Century as...

Whilst Jane Austen is credited as having 6 complete novels, she also completed the epistolary novella Lady Susan in 1794. The novella is...