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‘Oh! I am quite delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it,’ Catherine Morland, the heroine of Northanger Abbey, confesses to her friend Isabella, speaking of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic masterpiece The Mysteries of Udolpho. And while Isabella repeatedly tries to move the conversation away from the novel – […]
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Reading juvenilia can often seem part of a contrived, even pathetic, attempt to make some profound statement about how an author’s childish scribblings – no matter how underwhelming – actually demonstrate the emergence of later genius. Jane Austen is not one of those authors. Her three surviving notebooks containing novellas, epistolary fiction, and plays written […]
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Or what Jane Austen has been teaching us for over 200 years (and how Clueless we have been about it …) Bride and Prejudice, a 2004 Bollywood musical, was the first version of Pride and Prejudice I came across; then it was the turn of Bridget Jones’ Diary. It was only after watching the 2005 […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford Student looks at Paula Byrne’s new biography of Jane Austen A canny business-woman who loved sex jokes, despised the French and was related to the notorious Lord Byron – this Jane Austen does not square easily with the bonneted vision of domestic harmony that the onslaught of period drama has lead us to believe […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Tessa Hadley tells us about her work, inspiration and choosing between Austen’s heroines.
Continue ReadingThe Bod beats off American competition to buy unfinished Jane Austen manuscript for nearly £1 million
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