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Diving deep

We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels repay slow and careful perusal, and that every time we reread, we discover something new....

As seen by AI

Jane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and...

Cue the wine and cheese

Last spring, as blog readers will recall, the London Times announced that Persuasion was the sixth most popular book on TikTok, the...

#AustenTok

If you’ve ever wondered whether the shortening of our collective attention span spells doom for the appreciation of Jane Austen's...

Jane all around

Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...

Getting warmer

When it comes to climate change, is Jane Austen part of the problem? In a grossly oversimplified nutshell, that’s the question that will...

Many happy returns

Two hundred and forty-six years ago today, a daughter was born to Cassandra Leigh Austen and her husband, the Reverend George Austen. The...

The opposite of speed reading

How long does it take to read a Jane Austen novel? At roughly three hundred pages apiece, her books are far shorter than the works of...

Pricey, and priceless

It’s always nice to know that other people value Our Jane the way we do. Like, value her in dollars. Last week, as blog readers will...

Austens with a pedigree

Owning first editions of Jane Austen’s novels – ideally, as I’ve noted before, of all Jane Austen’s novels – must be . . . pretty cool....

Raising Jane(ites)

Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...

On this day in 1814. . .

Sixty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. No author – not even Jane Austen -- is immune to the charm...