On a mild Saturday morning in May, the Jane Austen Detectives met outside the Holburne Museum in Bath, within view of 4 Sydney...

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.

On the first Jane Austen Detectives outing to Bath, we were privileged to be shown around by Bath’s most engaging Jane Austen Walking...

Location is crucial to Jane Austen’s novels. As Moira Rudolf explained in her interview with the Jane Austen Detectives, the attractions and peculiarities...

As we saw in our previous post on the importance of location in Jane Austen’s novels, a great deal of social interaction amongst...

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...

The Knight Family resided in Chawton House for four hundred years. Edward Austen-Knight inherited the house in 1794.

The Knight Family Cookbook was not part of the existing Knight collection of books. Mysteriously, The Knight Family Cookbook was removed from Chawton House,...

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...