Jane Austen

• Selected letters - Jane Austen
  A fascinating record not only of her day to day existence, but of the pleasures and frustrations experienced by women of her social class

   

• Jane Austen fashion: fashion and needlework in the works of Jane Austen - Penelope Byrde
  Every aspect of fashion is discussed bringing the period most vividly to life.

   

• Jane Austen and crime - Susannah Fullerton
  Adultery, elopement, dwelling and even hanging offences…all these appear in Jane Austen's writings

   

• Jane and her gentlemen: Jane Austen and the men in her life and novels - Audrey Hawkridge
  Shows that Jane was much more worldly than many have given her credit for and that she was never short of suitors and male friends.

   

• Jane Austen's guide to dating - Lauren Henderson
  Brings Austen's Regency wisdom into the 21st century

   

• Jane Austen and food - Maggie Lane
  Food plays a vital part in the novels and the author discusses Jane's own ambivalent attitude to the provision and enjoyment of food

   

• Jane Austen: a companion - Josephine Ross
  A guide to Jane Austen, her work and her world

   

• Jane Austen - Carol Shields
  A concise summary of Jane Austen's life with added insights into why and how Austen wrote the way she did.

   

• Jane Austen and the Navy - Brian Southam
  Shows the novelist as a historian of Nelson's navy. Two of her brothers served in the Navy and later became admirals.

   

• Jane Austen: a life - Claire Tomalin
  A biography that paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours.