Letting off steam Introduction to engine-powered ships
Reading Austen for hope No-one needs to be perfect
The spiritual clergy wife Fanny Bertram from Mansfield Park
Breaches in dance etiquette What they signify in Austen's novels
Visiting College Street Where Jane ended her days in 1817
News from the Upper Rooms the restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms
Plus news, book reviews, quiz, letters, reports from Austen societies and much much more!
Previous Issues
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
Matters of Taste - Sense and Sensibility examined
No. 43: January / February 2010
No. 43: January / February 2010
Sex in the City: read how London was built on the wages of sin
Jane's 'civil rogue': Maggie Lane looks at the work of the publisher John Murray
When the bubble burst: how the South Sea Bubble affected Jane's generation
Three Creole ladies: Empress Josephine, Fanny Nisbet and Jane Leigh Perrot
Figures of Good: comparing Mansfield Park with Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat
