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Many happy returns

The return of spring brings many pleasures. Flowers! Baby birds! And, of course, a new Jane Austen bobblehead! Back in 2020, the North...

Jane and the feathered friend

Jane Austen assuredly never saw a penguin: According to the Zoological Society of London, it wasn’t until 1865, nearly fifty years after...

Another side of Austen

Jane Austen’s silhouette – or, at least, a silhouette that has come to be identified with her – is ubiquitous. Despite its uncertain...

All the Janes

Janeites have a curious affinity for images of Our Author – even though, as I’ve noted before, we’ll never really know what she looked...

Jane Austen's new look

These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...

Statues, statues everywhere

Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...

Enough already

Is it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...

The mysterious Rice portrait, again

One of the Janeite world’s most enduring mysteries/controversies concerns a charming eighteenth-century oil painting of a young girl in a...

An embarrassment of Austen statues

Eighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...

A statue for Chawton

The Hampshire village of Chawton is the mecca of the Janeite faith: the community where Austen spent the last eight years of her life,...

Camera-ready

Among the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...

Déjà vu all over again

I love the British press. When it comes to Jane Austen, they can manufacture a story out of the thinnest gossamer. Even recycled...