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No. 135: May / June 2025

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No. 135: May / June 2025

Cover Story: A Lively Mind
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Scramble into a little Education
Jane goes to Reading, Berkshire
Jane Austen Festival in Bath
Preview of the annual celebrations
Nuggets of Joy
Review of new TV series Miss Austen
The Socialising Clergy Wife
Augusta Elton from Emma
Power of the Press
Mechanical printing with steam

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

Previous Issues

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

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

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