Dear Shiny Readers, We hope you’re liking the new look for Shiny. We feel it’s cleaner, and it is nice to have the most recent posts higher up the front page for longer. Whilst we’re in spring-cleaning mode, the Shiny Eds have been discussing how we share our content with you. Outside of the website…
Dear Shiny Readers Another year has gone whizzing by as Shiny comes to the end of its fourth year. This has been a year of some big changes for us editors, and for you our loyal readers. Two of our hard-working co-editors decided to step back – Victoria for health reasons, and Simon because…
Introduction by Harriet Jane Austen died two hundred years ago, on 18 July 1817, at the age of just 41. She had anonymously published four novels – Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published after her death, in 1818. They were all…
We’re back! We have a new site design and a new way of sharing our content with our readers. We’re changing from our former ‘magazine’ format, in which we published lots of new pages in big batches every couple of months (and giving you too much to read in one sitting), to continuous posting. Each…