Austenised

Having celebrated Jane Austen's birthday at Chawton last week, it was my turn to celebrate mine yesterday. My husband surprised me by d...

Now that I live in Hampshire, I had the brilliant opportunity to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday (just 5 days apart from my own) at Jane...

Jane Austen adored her beloved birthplace and the place where she lived for the majority of her life – Hampshire. She led a quiet life as a...

Much as I love the six great novels written by Jane Austen, there is one commonly classified as a minor work that has always ranked highly...

Have you ever read Jane Austen in the form of a comic? Well, this was a first one for me, too! My husband attended a Comic Con recently and ...

As we await the publication of Alexander McCall Smith’s Emma, here is a link to a wonderful, insightful article written by him earlier th...

What a coincidence! Soon after I had written about how Alexander McCall Smith was the modern counterpart of Jane Austen , I found out that...

Wow! It’s been a while since I posted here. I thought I should comment on a couple of exciting events that have taken place on the Austen fr...

What do the Georgian female writer Jane Austen and the prolific modern novelist Alexander McCall Smith have in common?   From http://bit.l...

Still being kept super busy with my baby, I will try to post to my blog every now and then. I still actively follow other Jane Austen blogs,...

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,...