Austenised

I have recently added a gem to  my Jane Austen biography collection:  the acclaimed "The Real Jane Austen - a Life in Smal...

I'm lucky to live near Basingstoke, a place very familiar to Jane Austen. This was a place she visited several times, being the neares...

At the time of my visit to Chawton Cottage on Jane Austen's birthday, there was a special display of costumes from the BBC adaptatio...

I recently visited Tintern in South Wales. Set amidst the hills of the Wye river valley, this beautiful little village is famous for its g...

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have enjoyed the festive season in your part of the world. I have enjoyed Christmas here...

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...