July 15, 2021 Martha Lloyd’s Household Book Introduced with annotated transcription by Julienne Gehrer. Review by Hayley Anderton Martha Lloyd, to the previously uninitiated (such as myself) was a friend and…
July 23, 2020 Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer Reviewed by Harriet Today, Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most important writers in the English language, often spoken of in the…
March 3, 2020 Miss Austen by Gill Hornby Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth There’s a point in Miss Austen where I felt that my sins had been found out. Cassandra, Jane Austen’s now…
September 21, 2017 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Reviewed by Julie Barham The inevitable question is, do we need a new edition of one of Austen’s books? Well, on the evidence of…
July 20, 2017 Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley Reviewed by Harriet If you’re a watcher of historical TV documentaries, you won’t need introducing to Lucy Worsley, who presents history programmes for the…
July 19, 2017 Austen-ish – A Reading List of Austen-inspired fiction Compiled by Annabel and Elaine Perhaps more than any other author, including Dickens and the Brontës, Jane Austen has inspired other writers to use…
July 19, 2017 The Watsons – Two Endings Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long I have recently read two finished versions of Austen’s The Watsons, a novel fragment which, they say, she abandoned after her father’s death…
July 17, 2017 Teenage Writings by Jane Austen Reviewed by Karen Langley 2017 is turning out to be something of a year of anniversaries: as well as being 100 years since the…
July 17, 2017 Introducing Jane Austen Week By Harriet Jane Austen died two hundred years ago, on 18 July 1817, at the age of just 41. She had anonymously published four…
April 10, 2014 Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid Reviewed by Annabel Gaskell When I read that Val McDermid, writer of many a gory crime novel, was penning the second book in ‘The…
