Pride & Prejudice at 200
The media is awash with stories how today – Monday, January 28, 2013 – is the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Chawton Cottage appeared on BBC Breakfast...
View ArticleNew issue of Regency World
The March/April edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is published this week and will be mailed to subscribers around the world over the next few days. In the new issue you can read about:...
View ArticleAusten stamps issued today
The Royal Mail’s Jane Austen stamps are published today Mail posted in Chawton will have a special Austen postmark for one week only Illustrations from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility...
View ArticleRegency Ball, Isle of Wight, April 21
Jane Austen’s visit to the Isle Wight in 1813 is being celebrated during the island’s Arts Festival in April with several themed events. On Friday, April 19, there will be the presentation of...
View ArticleJane Austen magazine to visit Singapore and Australia
Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is going on tour: We will be visiting Singapore and nine Jane Austen groups across Australia between April 16 and May 4.Come and meet the editor, Tim Bullamore;...
View ArticleJARW in Singapore
If you’re in Singapore on Tuesday (April 16), or know anyone who is, come and meet the editor of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine. Here are the details from Amanda Aston, the organiser of the Jane...
View ArticleJARW Australia tour continues
After visits to the Jane Austen Festival of Australia in Canberra and the Jane Austen Society of Australia in Sydney, Regency World’s tour of Australia continues. Dozens of new subscribers signed up to...
View ArticleJARW: introducing our new Regency Rogues
The May/June issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine (No 63) will be mailed to subscribers this week and introduces Regency Rogues, our exciting regular new feature. In the first installment you...
View ArticleNext stops Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
Numbers continue to grow on the JARW lecture tour of Australia. After wonderful welcomes from Austen groups in Sydney, Souther Highlands and Hunter Valley, we continue with the second half of the...
View ArticleTurkish radio marks P&P @ 200
Özgür Çiçek and Irmak Ertuna-Howison will celebrate the 200th year anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice with a radio show on Açık Radyo (94.9), the listener-supported independent...
View ArticleBindings on early editions
The bindings on early editions of Jane Austen’s works can have a huge effect on their value. Peter Harrington, the leading rare book shop in Britain, has now posted a video on the subject. In it Adam...
View ArticleJuly/August issue out now
The July/August issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World is being mailed this week to a record number of subscribers. It will also be live on the Magzter site for digital subscribers from July 1. In the...
View ArticleDarcy emerges from lake
Colin Firth’s lake scene from Pride & Prejudice has been brought to life again – with a giant statue positioned in a well-known lake. The fibreglass sculpture of the actor’s head and torso...
View ArticleJane Austen on £10 note: official
Jane Austen is to feature on the next £10 note, the Bank of England says, avoiding a long-term absence of women represented on banknotes. The author will be the next face of the note, replacing Charles...
View ArticleChawton hopes to buy Austen ring
Jane Austen’s House Museum has raised more than £100,000 as part of an appeal to raise £152,450 to keep a ring once owned by the author in Britain after it was bought by a US popstar. Kelly Clarkson...
View ArticleCassandra’s Cup for sale
The tea-shop located opposite Jane Austen’s House Museum is for sale – and with it a two-bedroom apartment and a small bed & breakfast business. The tea-shop is known for its vast display of...
View ArticleNew issue of JARW – out now
The September/October edition of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine (No 65) is out now and will be mailed to subscribers this week. The latest issue is full of news, including: Austen on the £10...
View ArticleNew Harrington Books catalogue
Our good friends at Peter Harrington Books have sent details of their summer 2013 catalogue, The sunny front cover invites you to partake of a cooling Southern cocktail, one of a number of recipes from...
View ArticleAusten celebration in Ireland
A celebration of Jane Austen is taking place at Salterbridge House in Cappoquin, Co Waterford, on Sunday, October 6. Set amid beautiful grounds above the river Blackwater, Salterbridge House, built in...
View ArticleNew issue of JARW magazine features Death Comes to Pemberley
The November/December issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine is published this week and features on the cover Matthew Rhys as Mr Darcy in the BBC’s Christmas adaptation of P. D. James’s book...
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