This Jane Austen blog brings Jane Austen, her novels, and the Regency Period alive through food, dress, social customs, and other 19th C. historical details related to this topic.
It’s well-established that Jane Austen s family and friends played an important role in her writing life, and we know that she enjoyed a vibrant social life. She was a keen observer of human nature, as evidenced in her letters and novels. It’s intriguing to consider how the people in her life may have inspired her [ ]
By Brenda S. Cox “Our dear Father has closed his virtuous happy life, in a death almost as free from suffering as his Children could have wished. . . . We have lost an excellent Father. . . . His tenderness as a Father, who can do justice to? . . . the Corpse [ ]
As we round out our tour of Elizabeth Bennet’s travels, let s take a closer look at the Peak District, the fictional town of Lambton, and the real-life town of Bakewell. Over the past few months, we ve visited Derbyshire, Matlock, and Dovedale and Chatsworth House, as well as Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenilworth, and Birmingham, the route [ ]
Book Review by Brenda S. Cox of So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in Pride and Prejudice It’s not often that I read something that invites me to look at one of my favorite books, Pride and Prejudice, in a totally new way. Recently, after a presentation I gave on “Mr. Collins: Jane [ ]
Inquiring readers, While Jane Austen referred to dogs in her novels, no mention was made of one living in the various houses she inhabited even when she settled in her last productive years in Chawton Cottage. After Mrs Austen’s death in 1827, Cassandra, who remained in Chawton Cottage, kept a dog as her companion. It [ ]