Jane Austen

Home Educators Workshop: Discover Jane Austen
Join No.1 Royal Crescent for a fun, interactive workshop exploring Jane Austen’s life and writing.
Walking Tour: Austen & Architecture in Bath – Persuasion
Architecture plays a vital role in Jane Austen’s Persuasion as the enjoyment of rural or coastal landscapes are…
The Watsons: The novel Jane Austen was always writing
Join Professor Kathryn Sutherland as she explores The Watsons. Probably written in Bath in 1804-5, The Watsons was…
Exhibition Talk: Austen and Architecture
Architecture is everywhere in Jane Austen’s novels and it plays an important role in the stories she tells.
Exhibition talk: Most Tiresome Place in the World
Take a deeper dive into the themes of the exhibition The Most Tiresome Place in the World: Jane…
Gossip in Jane Austen
In Jane Austen’s novels, gossip swirls around the characters. We will see how gossip is the life-blood of…
Jane Austen’s Contradictory Characters
Austen’s characters come to life partly because of their delicious – often absurd – inconsistencies
A Guide to Regency Dress
Join Hilary Davidson, associate professor and chair of MA Fashion and Textile Studies at the Fashion Institute of…
Regency Fashion in the Fashion Museum Bath Collection
Join curator Elisabeth Murray to discover more about fashion during the Regency period, through the lens of the…
Dancing with the Stars – Georgian style!
They were ‘fond of dancing and excelled in it’. From learning from famous dancing masters, to performing at…
Dressing obstinate headstrong girls: costumes in Jane Austen films
In “Dressing Obstinate Headstrong Girls”, costume designer and fashion historian, Jolene Marie Richardson, will be examining how costume…
Dormouse to Donkey Carts: carriages of Jane Austen’s era
Amy Bracey has been driving horse-drawn carriages since she was knee high to a grasshopper and her love for…
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