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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

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

Previous Issues

No. 119: September / October 2022

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No. 119: September / October 2022

  • More of the same kind
    Lifting the veil on the Gothic
  • Innumerable pictures
    Women tourists' artistic engagements
  • Electricity on Tuesday
    Expecting no advantage from it
  • George Austen the mystery
    The forgotten brother
  • Cover story: Bath Fashion Museum
    Taking the tour
  • Jane Austen therapy
    Nonagenarian Dr Wilson's experience

No. 118: July / August 2022

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No. 118: July / August 2022

  • Bath Abbey
    The official Austen tour
  • Cautionary Tales
    Inspiration behind the juvenilia
  • Saartjie Baartman
    Wicked exploitation, the awful truth
  • Third act of death
    Edmund Kean, actor
  • Austen in schools
    Why Austen is good for the young
  • George Bridgetower
    Virtuoso violinist, man of genius

No. 117: May / June 2022

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No. 117: May / June 2022

  • Festival Preview
    The Jane Austen Festival, September 2022
  • The March of Intellect
    William Heath's cartoons translated
  • Putting biology to work
    Why a white Queen became a black icon
  • Every savage can dance
    When peasants dance, and workers sing
  • Wentworth and Croft
    Austen ancestry links with Persuasion
  • In defence of strawberries
    Emma and these fruitful delights

No. 116: March / April 2022

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No. 116: March / April 2022

  • Under the umbrella
    downpours in Jane's novels
  • Austen at the concert
    Jane's great day out in Sydney
  • 'Of rears and vices'
    naughty words and naughtier people
  • Taking travel home
    women tourists and the souvenirs they acquired
  • Ending animal cruelty
    the battle that led to better treatment of livestock
  • Fellow artistic spirits
    John Constable and Jane Austen had a lot in common

No. 115: January / February 2022

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No. 115: January / February 2022

  • Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
    the show that is taking the West End by storm
  • Eloping with Lydia Bennet
    why Gretna Green proved so attractive
  • Austen's music
    rehabilitating George Chard, Jane's music teacher
  • New series: Regency travellers
    meet the women who explored the world
  • Harpoon harvest
    whaling was big business in Jane Austen's time
  • Waltz and diplomacy
    Dorothy Lieven introduced Henry to the scandalous dance

No. 114: November / December 2021

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No. 114: November / December 2021

  • Brighton Pavilion
    exploring the Prince Regent's coastal fantasy
  • Dinner with Jane
    Julienne Gehrer introduces Martha Lloyd's Household Book
  • Austen and the weather
    a Georgian scientist was warning of climate change
  • Dancing with death
    the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo
  • Not-so holy orders
    John Horne Took, a troublesome priest
  • A triumph in chambermaids
    Isabelle Mattocks charmed the Prince Regent
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