Tag Archives: Bath

Airport Bus Video

Take a look at this little 1 minute video we made to show on the airport bus which runs from Bath to Bristol airport and back again. Its a bit of fun and shows Martin and Centre Guide Elle as well as the Regency Tea Room.   The Jane Austen Centre aims to be not [...]

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18th Century Umbrellas

Umbrellas often appear in Austen's novels as a chivalrous response to a lady's need. From left to right, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park.

The word Umbrella literally means “a little shade”…

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Pride and Prejudice Readathon

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Readathon event to celebrate Jane Austen’s bi-centenary The Jane Austen Centre in Bath is to host an event that will be broadcast around the world -a 12 Hour International Readathon. January 28th 2013 sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and to mark this bicentenary the book will be read [...]

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Searching for Captain Wentworth: A Review

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Jane Odiwe’s latest Austen inspired novel

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Festival Promenade best ever

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Hundreds of costumed Jane Austen fans took part in the Grand Festival Promenade.
The Promenade traditionally opens the Jane Austen Festival

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Doctor William Oliver

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Eminent physician, poet, musician and inventor of the Bath Bun…

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Discovering Bath with Jane Odiwe

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The author of Searching for Captain Wentworth discusses her newest novel, Bath, and the Jane Austen Festival

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Mr. Darcy Forever by Victoria Connelly

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a review by Jakki Leatherberry of Leatherbound Reviews

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Adrian Lukis (Wickham) to appear at Jane Austen Festival

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Amongst the 60 or so events crammed into this year’s annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will be the special appearance by actor Adrian Lukis (George Wickham in the BBC 1995 adaptation of P&P). Very appropriate as this year marks the 200th anniversary of the sale of the copyright of Pride & Prejudice to the publisher Thomas Egerton. Jane [...]

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‘Lizzie’ is taken away

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It is a sad day today. This morning at 10.30am a man in a van came and took away our ‘Lizzie’.

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