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No. 141: May / June 2026

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No. 141: May / June 2026

Beauty of bonnets
Wearing the right head covering
Mary Bennet interview
The Other Bennet Sister
My Stuff Gown
An introduction to worsted
Disagreeable connections
Communication problems are nothing new
Alton and Chawton fun
Preview of Jane Austen Regency Week
She sells seashells
Regency mania for collecting shells
War's the pity
Austen's time was far from tranquil
Jane Austen's Will
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Plus news, book reviews, quiz, letters, reports from Austen societies and much much more!

Previous Issues

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

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

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