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No. 88: July / August 2017

Obituary
Jane Austen’s life was little acknowledged at the time of her death in 1817: we put that right
Last days in Winchester
Inside the house where Jane Austen spent her final weeks
Mourning clothes
How to dress after the death of a family member
Darcy on screen
New evidence emerges of a lost prewar film of Pride & Prejudice
Archbishop’s bones
A discovery in London has important connections to Jane Austen
Bath time
Exclusive preview of the Jane Austen Festival taking place in Bath in September

Jane, Brexit and Trump
Nationalism was prevalent in Jane Austen’s day
Charlotte’s verdict
A Bronte sister’s outspoken views on Jane’s writing
Canal knowledge
The waterways that were changing the landscape
Our own William
Jane’s nephew accompanied her on the final journey to Winchester
Courtship, love and marriage
Romance in Regency England
Regency Rogue
Henry Morris, the bigamist who shocked Britain
Austen’s English
Would you have understood Jane’s spoken dialect?

Welcome to Brighton
The Regency spotlight falls on this coastal town
Austen at Astley’s
Nights out at the circus, both in fiction and in real life
Quality Street
The Peter Pan author set his new play in Regency times
Marrying a cousin
Could you? Should you?
Education, education, education
Boys and girls were taught differently in the classroom
The real Jane Fairfaxes
The women who worked as governesses
Jane and the theatre
Why did Austen never write for the stage?

Lady Worsley scandal
The heiress who shocked Georgian society
Louisa Lushington’s journal
The secret diary of a Regency lady has been transcribed
Who killed Mrs Churchill?
Reading Emma as a murder-mystery tale
New coins, please
It took a foreigner to introduce the great recoinage
Pelisse please
Reconstructing a garment that may have been worn by Jane Austen
Jane Austen the radical
Helena Kelly introduces her new book

Pride & Prejudice
The stage production that is touring the UK
Jobs for the girls
Some women in Regency times had remarkable occupations
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Lord Byron’s mistress spoke out in the pages of Glenarvon
Making a splash
Catherine Morland’s visit to the spa at Bath
Captain Cook’s curiosities
Stunning exhibits from the South Seas were on display in London
A caddish colonel
How Colonel Berkeley, from Gloucestershire, seemed to cause one scandal after another

Poldark returns
The Cornish Mr Darcy will be back on our television screens this autumn
Scandal at Stoneleigh
A murder tale comes close to Jane Austen’s maternal family
Austen for caregivers
Carol J Adams looks at the link between Austen, the First World War and 21st-century caregivers
Women against slavery
Meet those women who campaigned against the heinous trade in human beings
The real Lady Susan
Take a look at Lady Susan Vernon, Austen’s youthful creation
Janeites in DC
A preview of this year’s JASNA AGM which is taking place in October
Jane Austen Festival in Bath
A host of exciting events are lined up for September’s gathering