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No. 139: January / February 2026

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No. 139: January / February 2026

  • Royal Gardens at Kew
    A green oasis in London
  • Letting off steam
    Introduction to engine-powered ships
  • Reading Austen for hope
    No-one needs to be perfect
  • The spiritual clergy wife
    Fanny Bertram from Mansfield Park
  • Breaches in dance etiquette
    What they signify in Austen's novels
  • Visiting College Street
    Where Jane ended her days in 1817
  • News from the Upper Rooms
    the restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms





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

Previous Issues

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

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
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