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No. 100: July / August 2019

One hundred issues of Jane Austen's Regency World
Celebrating with 100 reasons to love Jane Austen
Ten days of Jane in Bath
Previewing this year's Jane Austen Festival
If walls could talk
Jane would have known the stunning Devonshire House
New: Regency heroine
Meet Dorothy Jordan
Love had to wait
Matthew Flinders put adventure before romance
Placed in cold storage
Ice houses were the precursor of the modern refrigerator

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

Man and machine
Were the Luddites friend or foe?
Jane Austen’s children
Young people are never far away, whether in life or in the novels
Women on the gallows
Terrifying tales of Georgian ladies condemned to hang
Fun by the seaside
The Royal Pavilion in Brighton is a symbol of decadence
Spreading the faith
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and her role in the expansion of Methodism
Aunt Jane’s advice
Letters to a favourite niece show how much she cared

Hamilton, the musical
Jane Austen’s US contemporary is a stage hit
At the Court of St James
What did Sir William Lucas mean by ‘dancing at court’?
Jane visits the museum
The weird, wonderful and obscure exhibits that were on display
Monkey puzzle
The shipwreck and the monkey: was it all that it seemed?
Austen’s landscapes
Exploring how Capability Brown and Humphry Repton informed the novels
Why did Jane never marry?
One writer has come up with his own theory

Meet Drunk Austen
The social media channel that shares all things Austen in a lighthearted way
200 years of Persuasion
Jane’s final novel was published six months after her death
Austen’s objectionable clergyman
Making sense of Mr Collins in Pride & Prejudice
Women in the church
They may not have been in the pulpit, but some had an important influence
Black Britain
People of colour were not as rare in Austen’s world as we might think
Wicked Uncle Ernie
Two deaths, a distasteful seduction and rumours of incest: what’s to like about George III’s fifth son?

Five ways to make more time for Jane Austen
Rose Servitova comes up with some top tips to make the most of Jane
Publish and be dammed
The Georgian courtesan who named and shamed her clients
Austen in America
How Jane’s books and fame spread in the New World
The mystery of Sanditon
The author who turned Jane’s work into a detective tale
Poetry in motion
Robert Southey, Caroline Bowles and an unhappy union
Jane’s bad boys
What can we learn about Messers Wickham, Darcy and Collins?

Northanger Abbey at 200
Tracing the history of Jane Austen’s gothic novel
Dining with Jane
Mouthwatering recipes from Chawton Cottage and the Great House
Daughters of Manydown Park
Jane and Cassandra’s close friendship with the three Bigg sisters
Keeping the faith
Quakers, Catholics and Methodists were the victims of religious discrimination
Gown and town
The value of an Oxford education to the Austen brothers
Jane in Paradise
Exclusive preview of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s AGM in Huntington Beach, California

Obituary
Jane Austen’s life was little acknowledged at the time of her death in 1817: we put that right
Last days in Winchester
Inside the house where Jane Austen spent her final weeks
Mourning clothes
How to dress after the death of a family member
Darcy on screen
New evidence emerges of a lost prewar film of Pride & Prejudice
Archbishop’s bones
A discovery in London has important connections to Jane Austen
Bath time
Exclusive preview of the Jane Austen Festival taking place in Bath in September

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