16th December 2025 marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen! Get your bonnets and Regency finery ready for a year filled with Jane Austen-themed parties and events to take part in. The most exciting being the Jane Austen Festival!
Not only did Jane Austen base two of her novels in Bath, but she is intrinsically connected to the city. Explore Jane Austen’s Bath here.
Here are just some of the events you can take part in this year:
Jane Austen 250: Gill Hornby for The Elopement
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United KingdomTo celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Toppings are hosting a week of literary events for books on and about the great author!
Jane Austen’s 250th: Jane Austen’s Wardrobe with Hilary Davidson
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United KingdomHilary joins Toppings to delve into the clothing of one of the world’s greatest authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world.
Jane Austen’s 250th: John Mullan asks What Matters in Jane Austen?
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United KingdomJohn Mullan is a professor and previously penned the regular ‘Guardian Book Club’ column on fiction in the Guardian.
Jane Austen’s 250th: Kathryn Sutherland on Austen in 41 Objects
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United KingdomTo celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Toppings are hosting a week of literary events with the most brilliant Austen scholars and writers celebrating their books on the great author herself!
Jane Austen’s 250th: Janet Todd for Living with Jane Austen
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United KingdomDescribed as ‘a timely, moving and masterful book by one of the English-speaking world’s foremost literary historians and a trailblazing scholar-heroine in Jane Austen studies
Jane Austen Festival 2025
One of the most well-known festivals in Bath, the Jane Austen Festival, is also one of the largest and longest Jane Austen-themed festivals in the world!