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No. 134: March / April 2025

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No. 134: March / April 2025

Cover Story: Queen of Tears
Princess Caroline Matilda, sister of George III
Painter of Light
The artist J M W Turner
Hot-Pressed Paper
Early papermaking machinery
Party, party, party
Simple ways to celebrate Austen 250
The practical clergy wife
Charlotte Lucas from Pride & Prejudice
Travel in Regency England
The practicalities of getting around

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

Previous Issues

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

No. 125: September / October 2023

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No. 125: September / October 2023

Cover story: Actress, heiress, duchess
The rags-to-riches life of Harriot Mellon
Soft as silk
An introduction to the silk industry
The road to Meryton
Journeys on foot in Pride & Prejudice
The monk and Mansfield Park
Comparing real life with fiction
A country village in London
The important locations in Sense & Sensibility
Battle of the sexes?
The 'programme piece', Battle of Prague

No. 124: July / August 2023

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No. 124: July / August 2023

Cover story: Festival Preview
Bath prepares to celebrate all things Austen
Highway Robbery
A less than romantic form of occupation
'The prettiest English china'
An introduction to the English porcelain industry
Ice with your Gin?
Looking for the North-West passage
Super-mum or villain?
The portrayal of the long-suffering Mrs Bennet
Jane Austen in earnest
Oscar Wilde's use of Austen novels

No. 123: May / June 2023

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No. 123: May / June 2023

Cover Story: A King-Sized Coronation
Prince Regent becomes George IV
Sarah Biffin 'without hands'
Remarkable story of an extraordinary artist
The Great Belzoni
Treasure hunter and vandal
'Our Wedgwood ware'
An introduction to Staffordshire pottery
Austen's Inspiration
Women writers' oft overlooked legacies
'Are they all horrid?'
The man behind The Midnight Bell

No. 122: March / April 2023

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No. 122: March / April 2023

Cover Story: Dropt children
Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital
Tokens of love
Heart-rending objects left by desperate mothers
The mighty enchantress
Ann Radcliffe the enigma
Fertility rituals and remedies
Alternative medicine of the 18th century
We walked by the canal
An engineering transport revolution
Lady Susan is dead
What would the obituary say if published today

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