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No. 96: November / December 2018

Christmas with Jane Austen’s family
Celebrating the festive season in a truly Georgian style
Love, lies and elopement
Escaping to Gretna Green in a hurry was not uncommon
‘We will have a pianoforte’
Jane’s delight at her family’s new keyboard instrument
Massacre at Manchester
Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo is coming out soon
Ship, ship, hooray!
Who you know mattered in the Regency-era Royal Navy
Which witch is which?
Cunning folk, druids and pagans were never far away
‘Pretty little TunbridgeWare’
Wooden souvenirs that delighted the Austen family

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

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?

Welcome to Brighton
The Regency spotlight falls on this coastal town
Austen at Astley’s
Nights out at the circus, both in fiction and in real life
Quality Street
The Peter Pan author set his new play in Regency times
Marrying a cousin
Could you? Should you?
Education, education, education
Boys and girls were taught differently in the classroom
The real Jane Fairfaxes
The women who worked as governesses
Jane and the theatre
Why did Austen never write for the stage?

Lady Worsley scandal
The heiress who shocked Georgian society
Louisa Lushington’s journal
The secret diary of a Regency lady has been transcribed
Who killed Mrs Churchill?
Reading Emma as a murder-mystery tale
New coins, please
It took a foreigner to introduce the great recoinage
Pelisse please
Reconstructing a garment that may have been worn by Jane Austen
Jane Austen the radical
Helena Kelly introduces her new book

Pride & Prejudice
The stage production that is touring the UK
Jobs for the girls
Some women in Regency times had remarkable occupations
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Lord Byron’s mistress spoke out in the pages of Glenarvon
Making a splash
Catherine Morland’s visit to the spa at Bath
Captain Cook’s curiosities
Stunning exhibits from the South Seas were on display in London
A caddish colonel
How Colonel Berkeley, from Gloucestershire, seemed to cause one scandal after another

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