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No. 138: November / December 2025

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No. 138: November / December 2025

250TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

  • Why is Jane Austen so good?
    Professor John Mullan's explanation
  • Unboxing Deidre Le Faye
    A very special archive donation to Chawton House 
  • Caroline Jane Knight
    Interview with Jane Austen's fifth-great-niece
  • The amicable clergy wife
    Mrs Grant from Mansfield Park
  • Austen on screen
    Pride & Prejudice 1940
  • Dialogue with death
    Bowen, Mrs Austen's apothecary
  • Pleasant memories
    Celebrating the anniversary




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

Previous Issues

No. 59: September / October 2012

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No. 59: September / October 2012

  • A new production of Mansfield Park tours England; we have an interview with the director
  • The shocking assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval
  • A preview of the Jane Austen Society of North America's AGM in October in Brooklyn
  • Enigma of the Orient: the tale of Marian Hastings, wife of the British ruler of India
  • The Jane Austen Facebook Game that everyone is playing

No. 58: July / August 2012

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No. 58: July / August 2012

No. 57: May / June 2012

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No. 57: May / June 2012

  • Mozart's Sister: a stunning new film tells of the talented musician eclipsed by a famous brother
  • Oops, I did it again: drink, drugs, sex and gambling... lax morals prevailed in Georgian England
  • Taking a tour around Steventon, birthplace of Jane Austen
  • Rage against the machine: how the Luddites sought to protect their jobs and their families
  • Exploring the character of Elizabeth Bennet

No. 56: March / April 2012

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No. 56: March / April 2012

  • Romance of the East: how Regency travellers were fascinated by Islam and the Orient
  • Best-selling novelist Karen Doornebos asks why grown men swoon over Mr Darcy
  • How Charles Dickens - celebrating the bicentenary of his birth - was influenced by Jane Austen's contemporaries
  • Frances Burney's experiences at the Royal Court
  • Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland - the amazing true story of May, Lou and Cass
  • Finding the fools in Northanger Abbey

No. 55: January / February 2012

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No. 55: January / February 2012

  • The renowned crime author P. D. James talks about her love of Austen and her new Pride & Prejudice sequel
  • The dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in Georgian times
  • Maggie Lane looks at how Jane Austen depicted wintry weather in her books
  • The other novelist Jane: Jane Porter, and her sister Anna-Maria
  • Face to face with Jane's writing: a look at one of Jane's letters to Cassandra
  • Forget Northanger Abbey - welcome to Nightmare Abbey

No. 54: November / December 2011

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No. 54: November / December 2011

  • Andrew Davies reveals to the JASNA conference how he 'sexed-up' Pride & Prejudice
  • A new series of Garrow's Law, the Georgian courtroom drama, hits the TV screens
  • The Night Before Christmas: seasonal writing from 1800s America
  • Stunning pictures from the Jane Austen Festival in Bath
  • Do the men in Sense & Sensibility disappoint, asks Maggie Lane
  • Take a new look at the events that led to the start of the Regency.
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