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No. 96: November / December 2018

Christmas with Jane Austen’s family
Celebrating the festive season in a truly Georgian style
Love, lies and elopement
Escaping to Gretna Green in a hurry was not uncommon
‘We will have a pianoforte’
Jane’s delight at her family’s new keyboard instrument
Massacre at Manchester
Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo is coming out soon
Ship, ship, hooray!
Who you know mattered in the Regency-era Royal Navy
Which witch is which?
Cunning folk, druids and pagans were never far away
‘Pretty little TunbridgeWare’
Wooden souvenirs that delighted the Austen family

Plus reports from Austen societies; news, letters, book reviews, quiz and much, much more!

Gainsborough and the theatre
A stunning new exhibition at the Holburne Musuem, Bath
Austen’s cradle of genius
Archaeologists have made some stunning finds at Steventon
Marrying his mistress
Elizabeth Armistead became the companion of a top politician
Jane and the archbishop
The trail of Austen literarcy criticism leads to an Irish cathedral
Art and exploration
The Royal Academy of Arts and Captain Cook’s travels
Wentworth’s prize money
How does Persuasion’s hero compare with Austen’s brothers?
Fathers and daughters
The Burneys, the Mitfords and the Austens

Flying start
Air travel in Jane Austen’s day – including some sky-high romantic adventures
Staging Persuasion
A new adaptation is touring the UK to rave reviews
Painting for love
Thomas Gainsborough’s family portraits will be on display in the UK and the US
Rioting on the streets of London
References to civil unrest can be found in Northanger Abbey
Janeites are gathering
Exclusive previews of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath and the JASNA AGM in Kansas City, Missouri
Searching for a lost Austen library
Can you help to find missing volumes from the Godmersham library?

Man and machine
Were the Luddites friend or foe?
Jane Austen’s children
Young people are never far away, whether in life or in the novels
Women on the gallows
Terrifying tales of Georgian ladies condemned to hang
Fun by the seaside
The Royal Pavilion in Brighton is a symbol of decadence
Spreading the faith
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and her role in the expansion of Methodism
Aunt Jane’s advice
Letters to a favourite niece show how much she cared

Hamilton, the musical
Jane Austen’s US contemporary is a stage hit
At the Court of St James
What did Sir William Lucas mean by ‘dancing at court’?
Jane visits the museum
The weird, wonderful and obscure exhibits that were on display
Monkey puzzle
The shipwreck and the monkey: was it all that it seemed?
Austen’s landscapes
Exploring how Capability Brown and Humphry Repton informed the novels
Why did Jane never marry?
One writer has come up with his own theory

Meet Drunk Austen
The social media channel that shares all things Austen in a lighthearted way
200 years of Persuasion
Jane’s final novel was published six months after her death
Austen’s objectionable clergyman
Making sense of Mr Collins in Pride & Prejudice
Women in the church
They may not have been in the pulpit, but some had an important influence
Black Britain
People of colour were not as rare in Austen’s world as we might think
Wicked Uncle Ernie
Two deaths, a distasteful seduction and rumours of incest: what’s to like about George III’s fifth son?

Five ways to make more time for Jane Austen
Rose Servitova comes up with some top tips to make the most of Jane
Publish and be dammed
The Georgian courtesan who named and shamed her clients
Austen in America
How Jane’s books and fame spread in the New World
The mystery of Sanditon
The author who turned Jane’s work into a detective tale
Poetry in motion
Robert Southey, Caroline Bowles and an unhappy union
Jane’s bad boys
What can we learn about Messers Wickham, Darcy and Collins?

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