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Friday, 11 April 2025

Jane Austen's 250th Birthday - More Updates


Here's a couple more events to add to your Jane Austen bicentenary calendar! Harewood House (Leeds) will host a new exhibition, 'Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter', running from 2 May to 19 October 2025. 

Exhibits will include Jane's unfinished novel, Sanditon, plus a first edition of Sense and Sensibility, J M W Turner's paintbox, and landscapes by Turner. 

A new exhibition of artwork by Jane's sister Cassandra will open at Jane Austen's House Museum on 29 April. It runs until 8 June, and is free with your house entry ticket. 

Illustration: Opera dress, April 1816, Ackermann's Repository. Author's collection. 

Monday, 27 January 2025

Miss Austen - A New BBC Drama


Jane Austen fans are in for a treat as her bicentenary year kicks off with a new BBC/Masterpiece drama, 'Miss Austen', which is based on Gill Hornby's novel, centred on Jane's sister Cassandra. The new series airs on BBC1 on Sunday 2 February, and you can see a trailer here.


Full dress and morning dress for January 1806, Lady's Monthly Museum