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The full text of all six major novels, alongside biography, scholarship, fan-fiction archives, Regency-era resources, and a peer-to-peer marketplace gathered over twenty-eight years. A reading room and a meeting place for those who return to her sentences again and again.
Each in full, annotated where helpful, in the order of their first appearance.
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park…
Begin readingIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Begin readingAbout thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram…
Begin readingEmma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence…
Begin readingNo one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine…
Begin readingSir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage…
Begin readingTwenty-eight years of curated companions to her work.
Three long-running conferences on the AustinSpring BBS — readers, watchers, and admirers gathering since the late 1990s. Free to read; quick to join.
Novels, adaptations, scholarship, and the long argument about Mr. Darcy.
on austinspring.comThe 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice and everything that came after.
on austinspring.comThe original screen-romance conference. Twenty-five years of leading men.
There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Caroline Bingley · Pride and Prejudice · ch. xi