Books

  • Read this fascinating account of Jane Austen's fifth Great niece and her experience of growing up at Chawton House.
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged... that Mr Darcy’s shirt remains dry throughout the novel.

    Enjoy re-living this classic Austen text with your very own beautiful clothbound edition.
  • Full of insightful chapters such as 'vulgarities peculiar to England' and useful tips on 'the use and abuse of soap', this book is a fascinating and delightful read.
  • Authentic embroidery projects for modern stitchers.  
  • An innovative and evocative exploration of Austen’s places, including Chawton House, that breathes life into a literary legend.

     
  • Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.  
  • Jane Austen always knows just the right thing to say. With this pocket collection of quotes from Jane’s novels and letters, you too, will have a quip for every situation.  
  • A complete and accurate transcript of all Austen's letters as known to date, providing an unparalleled and irresistible insight into the life of Jane Austen.    
  • Gin Austen

    £14.99

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of this good book must be in want of a drink.

  • Austen’s portrayal of Emma Woodhouse is a masterclass in irony and the management of narrative perspective – and one of the great high-wire acts of English literature.

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  • Jane Austen’s brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Written when she was just a teenager.

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  • Poor relation, Fanny Price, is taken in by the wealthy Bertram family to live at Mansfield Park. Much like Edward Austen and the Knight family!

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  • Austen’s novels depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity. Claire Tomalin’s biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours.

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    Based on a large family home built over 200 years ago, you can have hours of fun arranging the furnishings, helping the cook in the kitchen and the groom in the stables!
  • Austen abridged for all ages, these Baker Street Readers editions retell the world's greatest classic stories.

  • A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings  
  • Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a witty satire of the sentimental novel, a popular genre in Britain throughout the 1790s and the Regency.

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  • Originally published in the 1995 and now available in a fresh edition with a foreword by Zadie Smith, Gerzina’s engrossing classic brings to life Georgian Black Britain with vivid detail, highlighting fascinating individuals from Ignatius Sancho to Olaudah Equiano within the broader story of the struggle against enslavement.
  • Jane Austen parlour plays for drawing room performance.  
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