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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. 115: January / February 2022

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No. 115: January / February 2022

  • Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)
    the show that is taking the West End by storm
  • Eloping with Lydia Bennet
    why Gretna Green proved so attractive
  • Austen's music
    rehabilitating George Chard, Jane's music teacher
  • New series: Regency travellers
    meet the women who explored the world
  • Harpoon harvest
    whaling was big business in Jane Austen's time
  • Waltz and diplomacy
    Dorothy Lieven introduced Henry to the scandalous dance

No. 114: November / December 2021

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No. 114: November / December 2021

  • Brighton Pavilion
    exploring the Prince Regent's coastal fantasy
  • Dinner with Jane
    Julienne Gehrer introduces Martha Lloyd's Household Book
  • Austen and the weather
    a Georgian scientist was warning of climate change
  • Dancing with death
    the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo
  • Not-so holy orders
    John Horne Took, a troublesome priest
  • A triumph in chambermaids
    Isabelle Mattocks charmed the Prince Regent

No. 113: September / October 2021

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No. 113: September / October 2021

  • Exploring our royal heritage
    Bridgerton touches on Queen Charlotte's ancestry
  • Exclusive: the novel that foretells Sanditon
    had Austen read The Farmer of Inglewood Forest?
  • Jane and Winnie-the-Pooh
    AA Milne's touching adaptation of Elizabeth Bennet's story
  • Janeites are gathering in the Windy City
    Previewing JASNA's annual general meeting in Chicago
  • Austen and the castrati
    male singers whose voices soared to great highs
  • Hey, big spender
    conspicuous consumption was all the rage in Regency England

No. 112: July / August 2021

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No. 112: July / August 2021

  • Festival preview
    Janeites prepare for their return to Bath
  • Exclusive: the silent Austen film
    what happened to plans for a 1917 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice?
  • Caught in a tight place
    Jane's writing has never been more relevant than in the past year
  • Welcome to the ReGINcy
    the changing fortunes of this favourite drink
  • Meet the resurrection men
    with cadavers in short supply, the bodysnatchers had a solution
  • Witnesses to Waterloo
    first-hand accounts from the famous battle of 1815

No. 111: May / June 2021

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No. 111: May / June 2021

  • Seaside fun
    puppets that pack a punch
  • London's burning
    fire safety in Jane's day
  • Crime, punishment and George III
    plus: an Austen relation sent to the gallows
  • Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte?
    our writer admires them both, but sides with Austen
  • Mansfield Park and the work ethic
    Sir Thomas prepares the Price brothers for employment
  • Regency rogue
    Mary Ann Clark's career of corruption

No. 110: March / April 2021

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No. 110: March / April 2021

  • Austen and Bridgerton
    wealth, lust and betrayal in Regency England
  • Anna with variations
    Jane's niece and a musical joke
  • Chawton in the 1800s
    remarkable photographs of the 'Great House'
  • Making sense of the census
    controversy over how to cope with a rising population
  • Kitchen ingredients
    exploring the larders, pantries and stoves of Jane's time
  • Storming the US Capitol
    the day British troops attacked in 1814
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