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Happy New Year to my readers! Hope you have had lovely holidays and have been able to relax in the company of our favourite writer… Did yo...

This post discusses some of the various biographies written on Jane Austen. Obviously there are plenty more biographies written on her life,...

I have recently been reading Park Honan’s biography of Jane Austen, “Her Life”. In his work, Park Honan  draws various inferences on where J...

Wow! It has been a long time since I last worked on this blog. I have been totally engaged by the life-changing event of the birth of my ch...

Some people say that Jane Austen’s genius in creating the perfect romance is thanks to her own romantic experiences. That she experienced gr...

5. “The nameless, dateless lover” – Jane Austen’s seaside romance According to family tradition, the most likely person to have touched...

4. Edward Bridges To this day, mystery surrounds Jane’s relationship with Edward Bridges. You may have seen him as one of Jane’s persisten...

3. Harris Bigg-Wither The story of Harris Bigg-Wither’s proposal to Jane must have baffled her biographers for years. What made Jane Auste...

2. Dr Samuel Blackall Image: An unknown young scholar. There are several references to Dr Samuel Blackall in Austen’s biographies. Dr Bl...

1. Tom Lefroy Biographer Jon Spence is convinced that Thomas Langlois Lefroy was Jane Austen’s one and true love and that she suffered for ...

- For a mystery it is, thanks to the lack of  biographical data from the bulk of her twenties and the discreteness with which Jane Austen ha...

About the Author   Kaitlin Saunders, a fresh name in the Austenite world, is inspired by the works of Jane Austen. She first began ...