Mary Leapor worked as a servant at Edgcote House and documented the goings on below stairs in her poetry.
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The estate has been the seat of the Lascelles family since 1738.
This new BBC drama is an enjoyable retelling of Austen’s most popular novel from the perspective of one of its least regarded characters.
Heathcliff sneeringly rejected the idea he was ‘a hero of romance’ – though the new film claims Wuthering Heights as the greatest love story of all time. Is it?
In the second episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her views on love, and the role of romance in Pride & Prejudice.
Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more clearly.
The perils of romance, embarrassing families, self-knowledge and love – all wrapped up in a good dose of social satire – are a winning formula for great TV.
The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of the abolitionists.
Who was Jane Austen’s ‘model reader’? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
Edwina Preston tells why her favourite literary heroine is Seven Little Australians’ Judy Woolcot and her ‘bone-true authenticity of self’ – beating fellow tomboys Jo March and Anne Shirley.
Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
A Mr Darcy Halloween costume anyone? How the brooding hero of Pride and Prejudice has been reinvented as a vampire.
Though she created her stories more than 200 years ago, Jane Austen’s novels were forerunners of feminism.
How did jogging go from a Victorian gentleman’s pastime to the most popular form of exercise on the planet?
England’s green and pleasant land will be beset by a plague of the living dead, corpses will dig their way out of graves … Jane Austen horror is now a distinctive subgenre of Austen adaptations.
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