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No. 138: November / December 2025

250TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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

Jane Austen, fossil hunter?
An astonishing new theory about the ‘Kelly Clarkson ring’
Cranks, quacks and other healers
Meet the alternative medicine men of Jane Austen’s time
Queen Charlotte in Bath
George III’s consort came to take the waters
Come rain or shine
Jane Austen’s clever use of different weather conditions in Emma
Emma at the movies
Several film-makers have tackled Jane’s fourth novel. How do they compare?
Being lady of the house
How the wives of upper-class men had an important role in society

How one writer fell in love with Emma
The magic of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Charles Austen’s adventures with ladies of the night in Barbados
Fanny Burney’s first-hand account of the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo
Why Jane Austen resonates among the Amish of Pennsylvania
Promise & Promiscuity: Penny Ashton’s popular show is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe
Georgian dolls’ houses on display in Bath and London
Previews of Austen festivals in Bath and Louisville, Kentucky

George IV’s obsession with his pet giraffe
Jane Austen’s use of the sofa in her novels
The etiquette of maintaining another woman – plus Emma Hamilton, Nelson’s mistress
Georgian TripAdvisor – travel guidance for the Regency era
Discover the journeys that Austen’s characters take in Emma
The Jane Austen letter that ended up in Haverford College, near Philadelphia

Shopping with Jane Austen – plus our exclusive Christmas gift guide for the Austen fan in your life
Caroline Knight recalls her childhood at Chawton and introduces the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation
Damp houses caused misery in Jane Austen’s family
Elizabeth Inchbald, the novelist whose work is central to Mansfield Park
Did Jane Austen include lesbian subtexts in her novels?
Shakespeare’s influence on Jane Austen’s writing

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