Our reviewer, Harriet Smith, discovers that many Janeites harbour a love for creative writing. Rebecca Smith, author of The Jane Austen Writer's Club and five-times-great-niece...

Jane Austen had several connections to Ireland notably her brief dalliance with the handsome and debonaire Tom Lefroy. Writer, Caroline Crawford, from the Herald ie...

Every Jane Austen fan is sure to have a few choice quotes from their favourite author to hand for every situation but if you’re...

Anyone interested in Jane Austen’s life beyond her novels will enjoy reading her letters, which brim over with the literary traits that make...

Travel was an integral part of life for Georgians of Jane Austen’s social class; the characters in her novels are continually visiting both...

Jane Austen’s love of dancing shines through her novels and her correspondence, which features many lively accounts addressed to her sister Cassandra of...

Homes are central to Jane Austen’s life and novels. Her heroines’ ambition often centres on marrying to obtain a home of one’s own...

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the period in which Jane Austen lived and set her novels is its style. Lending itself perfectly...

No one could be better equipped to help a reader picture what the characters of Jane Austen’s novels were wearing than the curator...