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Posts about the much-loved novelist from Chawton in Hampshire, and extracts from her novels.

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Dear Anne Elliot

By Anne Thackeray

Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.

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Posted January 4

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An Unlikely Heroine

By Jane Austen

When she was ten, Catherine Morland showed none of the qualities needed to impress the ladies who read romantic fiction.

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Posted December 21 2023

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The Selfishness of Mr Willoughby

By Jane Austen

Now that Mr Willoughby has been found, and found to be married, Elinor Dashwood has the disagreeable task of making sure that her sister feels it is all for the best.

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Posted September 13 2023

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‘I Shall Keep This for Aunt Jane’

By James Edward Austen-Leigh

James Edward Austen-Leigh tells us what it was that made his aunt, the celebrated novelist Jane Austen, so remarkable.

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Posted January 11 2021

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A Universal Truth

By Jane Austen

From the very first lines, Jane Austen’s classic novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ pokes affectionate fun at Georgian England.

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Posted January 12 2019

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All Things ‘Nice’

By Jane Austen

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

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Posted February 26 2018

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