Marriage and Mansfield Park A modern-day divorce lawyer's view
Jane Austen and jewellery Elegant in its simplicity
Wickham's blue coat Mechanising woollen production
World book night How to encourage reading
Tearing down the house Mary Verney and Claydon House
In praise of the potato A remark not made by Mr Collins
From well to church Visiting Steventon, Jane's birthplace
Plus news, book reviews, quiz, letters, reports from Austen societies and much much more!
Previous Issues
No. 49: January / February 2011
No. 49: January / February 2011
Sense and Sensibility at 200: Leading writers look at the history, relevance, importance and morality in Jane Austen's first published novel.
Festival comes to town: Marvelous images from this year's Jane Austen Festival, Bath.
What price Paradise? Life as a Jewish person in Regency England
Wives by Advertisement: the risks and rewards of Georgian lonely hearts' adverts
Jane Austen and Robert Burns: what she really thought about the Scottish poet
No. 48: November / December 2010
No. 48: November / December 2010
All I want for Christmas - seasonal gift suggestions for the Austen fan in your life – or hints to drop your family and friends if you are an Austen fan!
Power of attractions: what gives some of Jane’s characters sex appeal
Why I'm banishing Jane from my bookshelf: the reader who has fallen out of love with Austen
Thanks for all the fish: Amy Patterson, of Jane Austen Books, finds similarities in the writings of Douglas Adam and Jane Austen
November in the novels: a busy time of year in Jane’s writing
Tom and Jerry: No, not the cartoon; a sportswriter’s fiction from the 1820s
No. 47: September / October 2010
No. 47: September / October 2010
The Latin touch: how Jane's fame is spreading in Brazil
A very secret diary: Anne Lister's love for a woman has been turned into a film
A Cornish exile: the life and times of Charles Austen, Jane's seafaring brother
Jane's best jest: comparing Emma with Mansfield Park
Required reading: no Georgian gentleman could afford to miss Gentleman's Magazine
No. 46: July / August 2010
No. 46: July / August 2010
Austen or Bronte? Maggie Sullivan, editrix of AustenBlog.com, discusses media suggestions that 'Bronte is the new Austen'
The Bath Bugabo (or little green man): Cathryn Spence, from the American Museum in Bath, writes about an eccentric man who terrified ladies in both Bath and Brighton
Where there's a Will: a look at the final wishes of some of Jane Austen's family
Only a Grandmother: Maggie Lane talks about Jane's treatment of grandparents in her writing
No. 45: May / June 2010
No. 45: May / June 2010
Bright Star - the story behind Jane Campion's film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne
Peterloo massacre - what happened when the citizens of Manchester demanded the vote
Woman to woman - when friendship between two ladies crossed a boundary
Cracking the Coade - the story of Eleanor Coade and her artificial stone
Reading aloud - a popular pastime in Jane Austen's era
No. 44: March / April 2010
No. 44: March / April 2010
Franz Joseph Haydn - the composer describes his visit to Bath in 1794
Jane Austen, music lover? Maggie Lane explores the author's knowledge of music
What was on Jane's iPod? David Owen Norris examines some new discoveries
Thomas Linley: Mozart's boyhood rival - The composer who was considered as talented as Mozart
Tidings of my harp - Instruments and social status
A golden time - Kelly M McDonald chronicles the work of the Knyvett family
