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Friday, 27 February 2026

Jane Austen Year 2025

As I mentioned before, as part of the commemoration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, the Classics Club started a #Reading Austen project. We are reading a book by her every other month, and I want to do read something Austen-related by her in between.

January: "Sense & Sensibility" - Verstand & Gefühl/Sinn & Sinnlichkeit - 1811 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen
February: Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017
March: "Pride & Prejudice" - Stolz & Vorurteil - 1813 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen
April: Bell, Catherine "Jane Austen and the Art of Words" (GE: Jane Austen und die Kunst der Worte- 2021
May: "Mansfield Park" - Mansfield Park - 1814 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
June: Hornby, Gill "Miss Austen" - 2020
July: "Emma" - Emma - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
August: Sullivan, Margaret C. "The Jane Austen Handbook. A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World" - 2007
September: "Northanger Abbey" - Kloster Northanger - 1818 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen
October: Adkins, Roy & Lesley "Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago" (aka "Jane Austen's England) - 2013
November: "Persuasion" - Überredung/Anne Elliot - 1817 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
December: Deresiewicz, William "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter" - 2011

And there are, of course, hundreds of books about Jane Austen, her life, her novels, plus numerous "sequels" to the novels she wrote, written by contemporary authors. I am not a big fan of those kind of stories, so I'm not including any since I haven't read them.

Shields, Carol "Jane Austen. A Life" - 2001
Tomalin, Claire "Jane Austen - A Life" - 1997

Which Austen Heroine are You? 

Other books relating to her work:
Baker, Jo "Longbourn" - 2013
Birtwistle, Sue; Conklin, Susie "The Making of Pride and Prejudice" - 1995
Pool, Daniel "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" - 1993
Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship" - 2010
Austen, Jane "The History of England: By a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian" - 1791

You will find more posts where she has been mentioned here.

And there are some recommendations by friends:
Harman, Claire "Jane’s Fame - How Jane Austen Conquered the World"
Mullan, John "What Matters in Jane Austen? - Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved"

And during the year, Captivated Reader found a YouTube link on PBS for a Jane Austen dance and general information about her life.

4 comments:

  1. A year of Austen sounds lovely. :D

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    1. It was fantastic, Lark. I mean, you don't necessarily have to do it in her jubilee year, you can always start whenever. And I will definitely add other books I will read in future but I am sure you'll find lots of books about her books yourself. Looking forward to seeing whether you embark on it.

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  2. So many books about Jane Austen, unbelievable. It seems she is more popular than ever. Well deserved, of course.

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    1. Definitely, Lisbeth. I always have the feeling that she grows to be more read every year. Of course, new readers always grow up, so they will add to her fans.

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