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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. 131: September / October 2024

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No. 131: September / October 2024

Cover Story: Despicable Lucy
Is she as bad as we think?
Elections Regency style
How the voting system has changed
Must we buy lace?
From labour-intensive to machine-made
Elderly and poor clergy
Dr Shirley and Charles Hayter of Persuasion
House hunting in Bath
Trials and tribulations of finding a home
Potosi to Pemberley
Students discover Pride and Prejudice

No. 130: July / August 2024

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No. 130: July / August 2024

Cover Story: Invasive Security
Interest in the Royal family is not new
Forging a new era
An introduction to cast iron
The Gluttonous Clergyman
Dr Grant of Mansfield Park
Jane Austen's Travels
Exploring England in her footsteps
Narcissistic Men
Did Wickham and Willoughby have NPD?
Jane Austen Festival
Preview of the 2024 celebrations

No. 129: May / June 2024

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No. 129: May / June 2024

Cover Story: Austen on Screen
Pride & Prejudice 1995
Stoneleigh Abbey
Similarities with Mansfield Park?
Chemist, Lecturer, Poet
The multi-talented Sir Humphry Davy
The Allen Gallery, Alton
Ceramics collection tells its own story
The Earnest Clergyman
Edmund Bertram from Mansfield Park
Anyone for Earl Grey?
Not Jane Austen's cuppa

No. 128: March / April 2024

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No. 128: March / April 2024

Cover story: Napoleon the film
Review of Ridley Scott's interpretation
A little wilderness
The eighteenth-century garden
Master and Commander
The real life of Sir Thomas Cochrane
In peril on the sea
Origins of the RNLI
The Ambitious Clergyman
Mr Elton from Emma
Biographies: Jane Austen
A book review special

No. 127: January / February 2024

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No. 127: January / February 2024

Cover story: The Musical Musketeer
The real life of Joseph de Bologne
Regimental Charms
Military fashion in Regency times
Novel First Impressions
The 1801 book by Margaret Holford
Nothing but tea
Austen drank this refreshing drink
Defending Charlotte Lucas
A victim or a schemer?
Pools and Promenades
Review of the 2023 Jane Austen Festival

No. 126: November / December 2023

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No. 126: November / December 2023

Cover story: Take a chair
The sedan chair's influence on Bath
The witty clergyman: Henry Tilney
New series exploring Austen's clergy
Trouble looming
New technology's impact on weavers
Let there be sound
Georgian hymns and church music
Real women
Discovering Austen characters
Jane Austen in spectacles
Looking through Georgian glasses

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