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No. 137: September / October 2025

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No. 137: September / October 2025

  • Cover Story: Georgians and cats
    The feline as a pet is a modern concept
  • Poor Leonora
    Publishing links with Jane's aunt
  • The self-centred Clergy Wife
    Mrs Norris from Mansfield Park
  • Of no fixed abode
    Mrs Austen's search for a home
  • Miss Tilney wore white
    The process of bleaching cloth
  • A Jane Austen pilgrimage
    Reminiscences from a self-organised UK tour

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

Previous Issues

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

No. 116: March / April 2022

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No. 116: March / April 2022

  • Under the umbrella
    downpours in Jane's novels
  • Austen at the concert
    Jane's great day out in Sydney
  • 'Of rears and vices'
    naughty words and naughtier people
  • Taking travel home
    women tourists and the souvenirs they acquired
  • Ending animal cruelty
    the battle that led to better treatment of livestock
  • Fellow artistic spirits
    John Constable and Jane Austen had a lot in common

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
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