Category: Jane Austen

Jane Austen on the Move

Having just made a big move across the country myself, I was intrigued by the thought that Jane Austen herself—not to mention several of her characters—knew what it took to...

Northanger Abbey’s “Horrid Novels”

In Austen’s youth, sentimental romances and sensational Gothic novels full of dramatized heroines, dark towers and dungeons, and dangerous male villains became popular. These included novels like Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline...