Jane Austen’s Life, World, and Works
Online Biography
- Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links
Books about Jane Austen’s Life and Times
Life and Works
- A. S. Byatt and Ignês Sodré: Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison (1995)
- Claire Tomalin: Jane Austen: A Life (1997)
- Carol Shields: Jane Austen (2001)
- Robert Rodi: Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps (2012)
- Paula Byrne: The real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (2013)
19th Century England
- Margaret C. Sullivan: The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England (2011)
- Roy Adkins: Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods (2013)
Jane Austen’s England
- Katharine Reeve: Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of the Writer’s City (2006)
- Terry Townsend: Jane Austen’s Hampshire (2014)
House and Home
- Kim Wilson
- Tea with Jane Austen (2004)
- In the Garden with Jane Austen (2008)
- Pen Vogler:
- Dinner with Mr. Darcy: Recipes Inspired by the Novels of Jane Austen (2013)
- Tea with Jane Austen: Recipes Inspired by Her Novels and Letters (2016)
Jane Austen’s World
Chawton: Jane Austen’s Home
The dining room, with Jane’s writing table tucked away in a corner next to the window.
Jane’s bedroom (also the room where most of her family said goodbye to her before she died).
Right: A replica of the blue dress and bonnet that Jane is wearing
in the portrait sketched of her by her sister Cassandra (left).
A quilt handmade by Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother,
and a muslin shawl embroidered by Jane.
Bath
Left: the Austen family’s first home in Sydney Place (recently converted into furnished short-stay apartments); right: near Jane Austen Centre.
Jane Austen Centre: Cassandra Austen’s portrait of her sister, and Jane depicted writing near a window (in the foreground, her writing paraphernalia).
The Assembly Rooms: focal point of Regency Bath society
Assembly Rooms: historic fashion exhibit (Regency dress and accessories)
The Circus and the Royal Crescent — in Austen’s time, part of the parade ground of Bath’s genteel society.
Lyme Regis
The dreaded steps …
The Cobb … which of course not only plays a pivotal role in Jane Austen’s Persuasion but also in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
Winchester
Winchester Cathedral, where Jane Austen is buried
Austen’s tomb and memorial plate
[More extensive pages still WIP:
- Jane Austen’s World: Chawton
- Jane Austen’s World: Family and Home
- Jane Austen’s World: Portsmouth
- Jane Austen’s World: Lyme Regis
- Jane Austen’s World: Bath]
Jane Austen’s Works
- Juvenalia, including:
- The Beautiful Cassandra (ca. 1787-1790)
- Love and Freindship (1790)
- The History of England (1791)
- Catharine, or The Bower (1792)
- Lesley Castle (ca. 1792)
- Evelyn (ca. 1792)
- Lady Susan (ca. 1793-94)
- Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800)
- The Watsons (1804-05, unfinished)
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Movie: Sense and Sensibility (Columbia Pictures 1995, screenplay by and starring Emma Thompson, and co-starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Emma (1815)
- Sanditon (1817, unfinished)
- Letters (1796–1817)
- Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
- Persuasion (1818, posthumous)
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- England (the Southern / Central Part), from East to West and Back: Bookish Souvenirs
- KYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen for Lydia Bennet
- Book Rescue, Book-Related Places of Pilgrimage … and My Personal Literary Canon, Part 1
- My Personal Literary Canon, Part 2: “Veteran” Readership
- Bibliomancy
- BL-opoly: Dice Roll #6
- Crowdsourced: More Books with a Difference – Fiction
- My Rainy Day Reads
- Books Read for School
- Favorite Rainy Day Reads
