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No. 99: May / June 2019

Jane Austen's House Museum at 70
Celebrations as the museum reaches a milestone
Hymns Jane would have known
The Wesley family and Christian worship
Meat-free in Regency Britain
Byron and Shelley championed vegetarianism
Music and massacre
A thrilling new novel set at the time of Peterloo
New: extracts from Jane's prayers
Rachel Dodge provides a regular commentary
The doctor's hidden secret
One woman's solution to the male-dominated world

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

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

Jane, Brexit and Trump
Nationalism was prevalent in Jane Austen’s day
Charlotte’s verdict
A Bronte sister’s outspoken views on Jane’s writing
Canal knowledge
The waterways that were changing the landscape
Our own William
Jane’s nephew accompanied her on the final journey to Winchester
Courtship, love and marriage
Romance in Regency England
Regency Rogue
Henry Morris, the bigamist who shocked Britain
Austen’s English
Would you have understood Jane’s spoken dialect?

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