Brothers take a back seat in Jane Austen’s novels; still, they do play an essential role in her stories as well as her life. In her...

Were Jane Austen’s sometimes comical and often less than flattering observations about the clergy merely a plot device to amuse us, or...

Dido Elizabeth Belle by David Martin I am compelled to amend my blog post from February 2024, “Was Jane Austen a Closet Abolitionist?”,...

Love is in the air when Valentine’s Day rolls around and we can thank our dear Jane for providing some of the most timeless love stories...

Financial insecurity can define a person’s life in any era.  For some it may be overcome through good fortune or hard work, for others...

Holiday traditions in Jane Austen’s time were quite different from our own.  Christmas trees didn’t become common place until the...

Fans of Jane Austen, those who read her stories and those who write stories in homage to her canon, are all students of human nature...

(Note to readers: This post has been amended to include Henry Crawford.) Enter Henry Tilney when ingenue Catherine Moreland attends her...

Jane Austen fans are romantics at heart.  We read her novels for many reasons, her subtle wit and amusing observations, her...

Among Jane Austen’s most beloved qualities are her sense of humor, subtle wit, and penchant for teasing.  We find evidence of it in her...

In the Austen canon, lesser-known characters can play pivotal roles in her stories, affecting outcomes or creating diversions; some by...

Not everyone is an extrovert in this world; self-confident, genial, at ease with new acquaintances or in new settings.  Some of us are...

What may we imply from the writings of Jane Austen regarding her feelings about slavery since, like many global events during her...

Love them or hate them, considering the many narcissistic characters Jane Austen introduces in her novels, one speculates whether she was...

Her family was deeply entrenched in “the living”; her father was a fellow at Oxford College when he met her mother, Cassandra Leigh, who was

Jane Austen was a master of social commentary and observer of human foibles. Her stories are made even more absorbing by the introduction o

How unique was Jane Austen’s relationship with her beloved sister? I have a sister with whom I shared a room throughout childhood but...

What would a father in a patriarchal society spanning both Georgian and Regency periods think of a daughter whose core ambition was to...

I know I’m not alone in wondering about the relationship between Jane Austen and her mother. As evidenced by the mother figures depicted...

I’m intrigued by the development of Jane Austen as a writer and how she came to conjure the rogues, scoundrels, and guileful creatures that