‘Jane Austen and the Pleasure Garden’: a walking tour of Bath with Dr Moira Rudolf
On a mild Saturday morning in May, the Jane Austen Detectives met outside the Holburne Museum in Bath, within view of 4 Sydney...
Posted: March 31st 2015
Blog tags: History, Interviews, Latest News, Tours
Categories: Interviews and Reviews, Jane Austen Archives, Personal History
Dancing in Georgian Society
On Christmas Eve 1798, 23-year-old Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra that our Ball was very thin, but by no means unpleasant.
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Posted: March 31st 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News
Category: Jane Austen Archives
Tracing Jane Austen’s steps through Bath
On the first Jane Austen Detectives outing to Bath, we were privileged to be shown around by Bath’s most engaging Jane Austen Walking...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News, Tours
Categories: Jane Austen Archives, Personal History
Places in Jane Austen
Location is crucial to Jane Austen’s novels. As Moira Rudolf explained in her interview with the Jane Austen Detectives, the attractions and peculiarities...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News
Category: Jane Austen Archives
The Etiquette of Visiting in Georgian society
As we saw in our previous post on the importance of location in Jane Austen’s novels, a great deal of social interaction amongst...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News
Category: Jane Austen Archives
Jane Austen’s early life and work
For an author who has continuously captivated vast audiences from the first appearance of her novels 200 years ago, we know surprisingly little about Jane...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News
Category: Jane Austen Archives
The Knights of Chawton
The Knight Family resided in Chawton House for four hundred years. Edward Austen-Knight inherited the house in 1794.
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News, The Knight family cookbook
Categories: Jane Austen Archives, Written by Jane Austen
History of the Knight Family Cookbook
The Knight Family Cookbook was not part of the existing Knight collection of books. Mysteriously, The Knight Family Cookbook was removed from Chawton House,...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News, The Knight family cookbook
Categories: Jane Austen Archives, Written by Jane Austen
Jane Austen and the Pleasure Garden’ a walking tour of Bath with Dr Moira Rudolf
On a mild Saturday morning in May, the Jane Austen Detectives met outside the Holburne Museum in Bath, within view of 4 Sydney Place, Jane Austen’s...
Posted: March 27th 2015
Blog tags: History, Latest News
Category: Jane Austen Archives