Austenised

Did you know that Reading had a connection to Jane Austen?  I had to change the title in case readers mistook "Reading" for the ve...

Finally the long-awaited adaptation of Gill Hornby's "Miss Austen" is out! The new mini-series aired on BBC this week, and man...

View of College Street from P & G Wells bookshop with Jane's last home in the background.   You may well have walked past Jane Auste...

Farringdon is a quaint village a mile from Chawton with several thatched cottages, which were around at the time of Jane Austen.  I took a w...

This weekend saw the launch of the Overton Jane Austen Trails. Overton is a village close to Steventon where Jane Austen often went shopping...