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No. 138: November / December 2025

250TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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

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

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

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

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

A royalty of princesses
the six daughters of George III
Austen's first flight
did Jane witness a hot-air balloon taking off in Bath?
God save the King
four versions of the National Anthem can be found in Jane's music collection
Austen and the Ottoman empire
Jane was aware of the Turks, but how aware were they of her?
Gas lights and locomotives
remarkable inventions during Austen's lifetime
Reaching for Jane
Exploring Austen's influence on Georgette Heyer

Lockdown at Jane Austen's House
house director Lizzie Dunford has a message of hope and inspiration
Thanksgiving with Jane
messages of thanks and appreciation can be found throughout the novels
Beer for breakfast?
what you drank and where you drank it was largely determined by sex and class
The noble sport of pedestrianism
this fierce trial of stamina was all the rage in Regency England
Jane in the Bahamas
clues to Austen's unlikely Caribbean connection
Finding good society
Playing online Austen games during lockdown

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