
Jeffery Ward gets into the holiday spirit with this review from Austenprose

Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice Mr Darcy, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, is one of Jane Austen’s most beloved male heroes from her novel Pride and Prejudice. Mr Darcy has a large estate of Pemberley which sits in Derbyshire and he has claim to a fortune of ten thousand a year. The Pemberley estate is extremely large [...]

Our very own Meeter/Greeter Martin Salter has been immortalised as a cartoon character by Perry Harris and can be seen on his Twitter site. He surely must be ‘England’s most photographed man’. I was surprised to see Martin looking at me from the wall of my local pub as someone had painted him and he [...]

I hope you received my little parcel by J. Bond on Wednesday evening, my dear Cassandra, and that you will be ready to hear from me again on Sunday, for I feel that I must write to you today…I want to tell you that I have got my own darling child from London. On Wednesday [...]

Jane Austen’s Aunt was once at risk of transportation to Botany Bay for shoplifting. It is piquant then, that Austen named two of her major male characters Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) and Captain Wentworth (Persuasion), because a leading inhabitant of New South Wales in those years was D’Arcy Wentworth, a disreputable but acknowledged kinsman [...]