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...
The new £10 note featuring Jane Austen
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...
Anonymity and Austen
During Jane Austen's lifetime, she successfully published four novels - Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813),...
Did Jane Austen approve of plays?
A pivotal plot point of Mansfield Park is the play brought about by the eldest son Tom Bertram whilst his father is away. The...
Was Jane Austen a feminist of her time?
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...
Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen's mother, and representations of mothers in her novels
Living what could be described by some as a fairly uneventful life, there is as you can imagine little information about what Cassandra...
The dangers of pregnancy & childbirth
Researching pregnancy in the Georgian/Regency era is no easy feat. Despite the number of large families, it wasn't a subject that was...
The Loiterer
Jane Austen wasn't the only writer in her family. Her eldest brother James and elder brother Henry Austen were also writers during their...
Popularity of the epistolary novel
An epistolary novel is one written entirely of letters or diary entries. The epistolary format became popular in the 18th Century as...
Overlooked?: Lady Susan
Whilst Jane Austen is credited as having 6 complete novels, she also completed the epistolary novella Lady Susan in 1794. The novella is...
