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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

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

Previous Issues

No. 121: January / February 2023

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No. 121: January / February 2023

  • Do not poke the animals!
    The birth of Regents Park Zoo
  • Upper Rooms at Bath
    An important location in Austen novels
  • Belfast Harp Festival of 1792
    Keeping ancient Irish music alive
  • Port wine: A Georgian favourite
    Delving into the history of this digestif
  • Cover Story: Weather the weather
    Whether we like it or not!
  • Muslins and mule-spinning
    New series on the emerging industrial revolution

No. 120: November / December 2022

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No. 120: November / December 2022

  • Cover Story: The Sadness of George III
    Life and funeral of long-reigning monarch
  • Are we persuaded?
    Recent Netflix adaptation reviewed
  • Two Janes in Bath
    The similarities between Austen and Porter
  • Scandal at Court
    Princess Sophia's illegitimate child
  • Delightful authors
    First fan reference to an Austen novel
  • Jealous moments of note
    Male rivalry in Emma and Persuasion

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
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