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

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...

From time to time, you happen across a story that makes clear how entirely some people miss the point of Jane Austen. For instance, when...

Last summer, not long after the July 18 bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, officials in the English town of Basingstoke announced that...

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

As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...

Jane Austen was never squeamish about money-making. In a November 1814 letter to her niece Fanny Knight (#114 in Deirdre Le Faye’s...

I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...

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

Last fall, you’ll recall, the English town of Basingstoke, located not far from Jane Austen’s final home at Chawton, decided to...

Nobody knows what Jane Austen looked like. Nobody will ever know what Jane Austen looked like. So, naturally, we’ll soon have a new image...

Next year, as all Janeites know, marks the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, and I feel safe in predicting that 2017 will see an...