I am hugely indebted to the countless scholars who have written before me on the topics of Jane Austen, her family and friends, and life in Georgian England. Here are my major sources. 

LETTERS AND MEMOIRS OF THE AUSTEN FAMILY

Austen Leigh, J.E. (2017) A Memoir of Jane Austen - Illustrated & Annotated. A 200^th Anniversary Edition. Kent: Solis Press.

Austen Leigh, R.A. (1942) Austen Papers 1704-1856. Colchester: Privately printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.

Hughes-Hallett (2019) The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen. London: Batsford.

Le Faye, D. (2011) Jane Austen’s Letters – Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

ANCESTRAL RECORDS

Le Faye, D. (2013) A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family 1600-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

www.ancestry.co.uk  - for birth, marriage and death certificates and family records.

www.findagrave.com – for burial records

Corder, J. (1953) Akin to Jane: Jane Austen’s Family Index of Names and Lists (Edited and expanded by R. Dunning, 2012) Available at: https://www.janeaustensfamily.co.uk/akin-to-jane/akin-to-jane.index.html

BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE AUSTEN FAMILY

Ashton, H. (1987) Parson Austen’s Daughter. London: Collins.

Austen-Leigh, W., Austen-Leigh R.A. and Le Faye D. (1989) Jane Austen: A Family Record. London: The British Library.

Byrne, P.B. (2014) The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things. London: William Collins Books.

Caplan, C. (1998) Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen & Co., 1801-1816. Persuasions No. 20: Jane Austen Society of North America.

Caplan, C. (2010) The Missteps and Misdeeds of Henry Austen’s Bank in Jane Austen Society Annual Report 2010. Available at: https://archive.org/details/austencollreport_2010/page/n103/mode/2up

Chapman, R.W. (1948) Jane Austen Facts and Problems: The Clark Lectures. Oxford: The University Press.

Hubback, J.H. & E.C. (1905) Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers. London: Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.

Jane Austen Blog (2022) A Closer Look at Catherine Knight. Available at: https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/extended-reading/a-closer-look-at-catherine-knight

Johnson Kindred, S. (2017) Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen. Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Lane, M. (1984) Jane Austen’s Family: Through Five Generations. London: Robert Hale Ltd.

Nokes, D. (1997) Jane Austen A Life. California: University of California Press.

Robinson Walker, L. (2005) Why was Jane Austen Sent away to School at Seven? An Empirical Look at a Vexing Question in Persuasions on-line, V.26, No.1 (Winter 2005) Jane Austen Society of North America. Available at: https://jasna.org/persuasions/on-line/vol26no1/walker.htm

The Open University (2015) Austen and Romantic Writing (Chapters 4-7). Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Todd, J. (2013) The Treasures of Jane Austen: The Story of her Life and Work. London: SevenOaks.

Tomalin, C. (2000) Jane Austen A Life. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

Tucker, G.H. (1983) A Goodly Heritage. Manchester: Carcanet New Press

Tucker, G.H. (1994) Jane Austen: The Woman. New York: St Martin’s Griffin.

Veevers, M. (2017) Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility. Scotland: Sandstone Press.

Wilson, M. (1990) Almost Another Sister. The family life of Fanny Knight, Jane Austen’s favourite niece. Kent: Kent Arts and Libraries.

Worsley, L. (2017) Jane Austen at Home. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

WRITTEN WORKS OF THE AUSTEN FAMILY

Douglas Editions. (2009) The Complete Works of Jane Austen: with extras (including Commentary, Plot Summary Guides and Biography). Kindle Edition.

Internet Archive (2023) The Austen Family Music Books. Available at: https://archive.org/details/austenfamilymusicbooks

Moore, R. (2018) Jane Austen: The Complete Juvenilia – Text and Critical Introduction. Independently Published.

Oxford University Classics (2021) Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Selwyn, D. (1996) Jane Austen: Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family. Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited.

Selwyn, D. (2003) The Complete Poems of James Austen: Jane Austen’s eldest brother. Chawton: The Jane Austen Society.

University of Southampton (2015) Jane Austen’s family music books digitised and online. Available at: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2015/12/jane-austen-music-books.page

EXTENDED FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Climenson, E.J.& Osler, M. (2024) Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon. AD 1756 to 1808. Internet Archive: University of Toronto. Available at: https://archive.org/stream/passagesfromdiar00powyuoft/passagesfromdiar00powyuoft_djvu.txt

Hammond, M. (1986) Mrs Henry Rice in Jane Austen Society Annual Report 1986. Pp. 14-18. Available at: https://archive.org/details/austencollreport_1986_1995_202004/page/13/mode/2up

Hammond, M (1992) Jemima Lucy Lefroy in Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America- Persuasions n. 14. JASNA:1992.

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies (2021) After Jane Austen: the Harris Bigg-Wither Story. Available at: https://hampshirearchivesandlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/03/06/after-jane-austen-the-harris-bigg-wither-story/

Huxley, V. (2013) Jane Austen & Adlestrop: Her Other Family.  Gloucestershire: Windrush Publishing Services.

Lefroy, H. & Turner, G. (2007) The Letters of Mrs Lefroy: Jane Austen’s Beloved Friend. Winchester: The Jane Austen Society c/o Sarsen Press.

Wheddon, Z. (2021) Jane Austen’s Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd. South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd.

 LOCATIONS

Allen, L. (2013) Walking Jane Austen’s London: A Tour Guide for the Modern Traveller. Oxford: Shire Publications.

Chapman, R.W. & Cox. B.S. (2022) A Map of Bath in the Time of Jane Austen. Bath Municipal Libraries’ Collection: Oxford University Press.

Chawton House (2024) Chawton House. Available at: https://chawtonhouse.org

Hathi Trust (2025) Picture of Worthing; to which is added an account of Arundel and Shoreham, with other parts of the surrounding country. Available at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013197213&seq=7

Hill, C. (1901) Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends. dodopress.co.uk: Dodo Press.

Jane Austen Centre (2024) Jane Austen Centre, Bath Available at: https://janeausten.co.uk

Jane Austen’s House (2024) Jane Austen’s House website. Available at: https://janeaustens.house

Kintbury and Beyond (2024) Local History, Jane Austen and more. Available at: https://kintburyandbeyond.co.uk/

Lane, M. (2003) Jane Austen and Lyme Regis. Chawton: The Jane Austen Society.

Le Faye (2007) Jane Austen’s Steventon. Chawton: The Jane Austen Society.

Sandrawich, C. (2012) A Tour of Worthing, by Chris Sandrawich of JAS-Midlands in Jane Austen in Vermont blog. Available at: https://janeausteninvermont.blog/2012/05/10/in-search-of-jane-austen-guest-post-a-tour-of-worthing-by-chris-sandrawich/

Southam,B. (2011) Jane Austen beside the Seaside: Devonshire and Wales 1801–1803. Persuasions No. 33: Jane Austen Society of North America.

Townsend, T. (2014) Jane Austen’s Hampshire. Somerset: Halsgrove.

Townsend, T. (2015) Jane Austen and Bath. Somerset: Halsgrove.

Townsend, T. (2015) Jane Austen’s Kent. Somerset: Halsgrove.

Various contributors. (2024) The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Hamstall Ridware. Independently Published.

LIFE IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND

Adkins R. and L. (2013) Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England. London: Little, Brown Book Group.

Angelo, D. (1787) The school of Fencing with a general explanation of the principal attitudes and positions peculiar to the art. Available at: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-school-of-fencing-wi_angelo-domenico_1787/mode/2up

Fawcett, C. (2004) The Bath Volunteers: Civil Defence against the French, 1779- 1815. Available at: https://historyofbath.org/images/BathHistory/Vol%2014%20-%2004.%20Fawcett%20-%20The%20Bath%20Volunteers%20-%20Civil%20Defence%20against%20the%20French,%201779-1815.pdf

Ferry, K. (2023) The Remarkable Tale of the Bathing Machine. Country Life online. Available at: https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/the-remarkable-tale-of-the-bathing-machine-258941

Herring, J. (2024) Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine. Somerset: Sild Media Ltd.

Knowles,R. (2024) Regency History. Available at: https://www.regencyhistory.net

Mortimer, I. (2020) The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain. UK: Penguin Random House.

Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone.

Sullivan, M.C. (2007) The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England. Philadelphia: Quirk Books.

THE CLERGY & RELIGION

Cox, B.S. (2022) Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen’s England. Georgia, USA: Topaz Cross Books.

Merry, H. (2021) Jane Austen’s Easter. Independently Published: Amazon.

The Clergy Database (2022) Database - Search. Available at: https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/search/index.jsp

FASHION & DRESS

Cassin-Scott, J. (1971) Costume and Fashion in Colour: 1760 – 1920. Dorset: Blandford Press.

Davidson, H. (2019) Dress in the Age of Jane Austen. Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Davidson, H. (2023) Jane Austen’s Wardrobe. Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Yarwood, D. (1961) English Costume. London: Redwood Burn Ltd.

FOOD AND DRINK

Gehrer, J. (2021) Martha Lloyd’s Household Book. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Hartley, D. (1954) Food in England. London: Futura Publications.

Paston-Williams, S. (1993) ‘An Elegant Repast: Georgian Food’ in The Art of Dining – A History of Cooking and Eating. London: National Trust Enterprises Ltd.

Vogler, P. (2020) Dinner with Mr Darcy. London: Ryland Peters & Small Ltd.

 ONLINE SOCIETIES & GROUPS

 Jane Austen & Co. (2024) An educational site offering an extensive range of video presentations and events on many different topics. Available at: https://www.janeaustenandco.org

Jane Austen Daily (2024) Jane Austen Daily Facebook Group. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296923455713211/members

Jane Austen Fan Club (2024) Jane Austen Fan Club Facebook Group. Available at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2210708105/

Jane Austen Society of North America (2024) An extremely informative site relating to all things Austen. Available at: https://jasna.org

The Jane Austen Society (2024) Newsletter and Reports Archive (Members Area). Available at: https://janeaustensociety.org.uk

Jane Austen's World (2024) A blog bringing Jane Austen's world and the Regency period alive in indexed posts on hundred of topics. Available at: https://janeaustensworld.com

Mollands.net (2024) An incredible collection of e-texts, articles and blog posts related to Jane Austen and her works. Available at: https://www.mollands.net/etexts/index.html

The Republic of Pemberley (2024) A treasure trove of information related to Jane Austen and her works. Available at: https://pemberley.com

          

Thank you to everyone who has contributed towards these resources.