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No. 139: January / February 2026

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

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

Scotland and Austen: as the Scots prepare to vote on independence, what did Jane make of life north of the Border?
Mr Turner: the great new film about the artist who was a contemporary of Jane Austem
William Hogarth and his influence on Jane Austen
How one Jane Austen fan came to fall in love with Mansfield Park
When and how was it acceptable to marry a first cousin in Georgian times
North American Janeites prepare to gather for their AGM in Montréal

Our exclusive preview of this year’s Jane Austen Festival in Bath
Philip Astley’s circus was a fun day out for Jane Austen and her family
The tale of how Philadelphia Austen, Jane’s aunt, went husband-hunting in India
Could Edward Taylor, from Bifron’s have captured Jane Austen’s heart?
How the abolitionist movement is referred to in Mansfield Park
Margaret Meen, botanical artist by royal appointment

Our exclusive interview with Deirdre Le Faye, doyenne of the Austen world, about her career as a Janeite and her new book
Belle, the new film about Lord Mansfield’s great-niece, is out soon
Could an eminent harpist have discovered Jane ‘s piano tuning key?
Glorious Godmersham: a visit to the home of Edward Austen Knight
Adlestrop, the village that influenced both Jane and a poet
How Georgian England was fascinated by spiritualism and the supernatural

William Beckford, the remarkable author and architect who led a somewhat sordid life
Joanna Trollope on her rewriting of Sense & Sensibility for HarperCollins’s Austen Project
Mary Russell Mitford, the writer who sought to emulate Jane Austen
How Jane Austen supported her fellow writers by subscribing to their books
The story of Julie Klassen, marketing assistant turned best-selling Regency romance novelist

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