Subscribe to our newsletter. Wrote about the British rural middle class and introduced new literary topics, such as marriage and classes. This page provides information and resources related to Jane Austen and British Literature. A Jane Austen Bulletin Board for Male Voices Speak your mind about Austen.
Men are encouraged and women are welcomed.
J.A. NEws , which has less scholarly information, and The Austen Quarterly . Includes information on her works, the life and times, and the Derbyshire Writers' Guild, a place to post and peruse Austen-based writing. How Jane Austen's Characters Talk This article by Eric Johnson presents findings on a computer test done to determine how often a character in six Austen novels spoke. Austen's unwordliness is closely tied to a sense of her polite remove from the contingencies of history. Jane Austen Society of Melbourne This Australian group publishes a bi-monthly newsletter and an occasional journal, Observations .