Everything you wanted to know about jane austen’s england

Austenland – is there such a place? If so, it’s to be found in drawing rooms and parlours, not in sweeping vistas. So it’s appropriate that the Hampshire village of Chawton, Jane Austen’s home for the

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In celebration of the author’s 250th year, Bethany Stone delves into the small but significant role of horses in Jane Austen’s fiction

Contrasting biographical portraits

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

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