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No. 141: May / June 2026

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

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

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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