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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…

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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…

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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…

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