Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with ...

In Jane Austen’s own century that actually would ... who knew Austen – she didn’t openly sympathise with radical contemporaries such as Mary Wollstonecraft, the British writer and advocate ...

The Hampshire Regency Dancers will be appearing in full period costume and will take you through the steps of the dances performed by Jane Austen and her contemporaries. The event runs from 2.30pm ...

Because of oversights such as these, the whole story feels more like a jocular riff on Austen rather than a fully thought-through contemporary update of it. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life has the ...

Southampton is set to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth with a series of events. The Jane Austen 250 programme will be launched on November 15, with an exhibition at God's House Tower.

her contemporaries and her predecessors with an increased sensitivity to the connections between them, and a renewed pleasure in the complexity of the novels themselves." Michael Caines, Times ...