The Power of the Perfect Pick-Up Line: Jane Austen Makes Her MoveEmily Dickinson once famously remarked that if she felt as though the top of her head were taken off, she knew she was reading poetry. And who among us did not read "It is a truth universally acknowledged, ..." and feel our heads explo[...]

From a list of her last lines to letters written about her to wars fought in her lifetime, step inside Jane's world. Find out about...Her friends, every place she lived, books in her library, every place she visited, her obsessions, last lines of everything she wrote, her boyfriends, her neighbors..[...]

How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk... Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels and are explored[...]

Jane Austen wrote about the English gentry class in the late Georgian and Regency periods (1796-1816). Her novels follow her heroines' quest for true love and fulfilment in English society during a period of great upheaval. But how accurate were Jane Austen's depictions of life in England? Was marri[...]

This collection includes all of Jane Austen's novels: Love and Friendship, Lady Susan, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Active (hyperlinked) table of contents makes it easy to navigate through this huge file. This file to also includ[...]

"Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners" is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for "literary comment," Jane loved everything about[...]

Enter the world of Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion with this beautifully realized puzzle collection that transports you to Jane Austen's England--a land of polite intrigue and conjugal contrivance. Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation and amusement to make[...]

Jane Austen's Tips for Success is a gift book sure to delight Austen fans. Most of us are like Elizabeth Bennett, Elinor Dashwood, Anne Elliot and Emma. We want true love, a comfortable life and to be happy. Although Jane Austen's novels are set in the drawing rooms of Regency England, their univer[...]