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No. 137: September / October 2025

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No. 137: September / October 2025

  • Cover Story: Georgians and cats
    The feline as a pet is a modern concept
  • Poor Leonora
    Publishing links with Jane's aunt
  • The self-centred Clergy Wife
    Mrs Norris from Mansfield Park
  • Of no fixed abode
    Mrs Austen's search for a home
  • Miss Tilney wore white
    The process of bleaching cloth
  • A Jane Austen pilgrimage
    Reminiscences from a self-organised UK tour

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

Previous Issues

No. 46: July / August 2010

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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

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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

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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

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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
  • Prince of Prints: inside Ackermann's Repository
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