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Gothic Horrors: The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Otranto is the Gothic that inspired them all, establishing the common denominators of the genre: a greedy, controlling villain; a sweet, innocent heroi...

Online Biographies of Jane Austen

if you’ve ever longed for more information about Jane Austen’s life but haven’t time to visit the library, you are in luck! Many full length biographies of Austen’s life are available to read or ...

The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club is a motley crew of eccentrics such as California specializes in. The five women and one man who comprise the membership of the reading group are a diverse bunch, diffe...

Instructions to Youth

Including A Beautiful Description of the Different Effects of Sensibility on Different Minds

When Stretch'd on One's Bed

A humorous yet telling look at life when ill.

Chawton Cottage

Chawton Cottage A Tale of Dreadful Attics and an Enthusiastic Curator Chawton, an 18th Century redbrick cottage, was once home to Jane Austen. It was here that the writer worked on all six of ...

Christmas Day with the Austen Family

How Jane Austen would have celebrated Christmas

Jane Austen's Quilt

Jane Austen was both an accomplished novelist and expert seamstress. She mentions household sewing as well as trimming and retrimming her hats, bonnets and gowns several times throughout her lette...

Twelfth Night

The end of Christmas Festivities

Bouillabaisse

Madame Bigeon's "fish & bouillée"?

To Make French Pottage

A lovely Duck (or chicken) soup for chilly Autumn days

Regency Ball June 2010

The Jane Austen Festival in Bath is ten years old and to celebrate this milestone we held a Regency Costumed Ball in The Guildhall on Saturday 19th June 2010 Pre-Ball Dance Workshop in the after...