Links for Jane

There is no shortage of other resources on Jane Austen and her works out there - this purports to be nothing more than a brief survey of some of the most interesting we have come across, and we will be expanding it as time goes by:

• The Jane Austen Centre, Bath with its associated
• Regency World Magazine,
• Jane Austen Centre Online Giftshop, and
• Becca's Facebook group!
• The Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom, fostering the appreciation and study of the life, work and times of Jane Austen and the Austen family.
• The Jane Austen Society of North America, dedicated to the enjoyment and appreciation of Jane Austen and her writing.
• At Chawton, the Jane Austen House Museum, Jane's latter day home in Hampshire, England.
• The Republic of Pemberley; discussions and information on Jane, a long-established and well-respected resource website.
• Early Music in the Vale, is a project run by our good friend Dr Micaela Schmitz, of Worcestershire, alongside her phenomenal Lady Georgianna group.
• A new academic project website, Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts, creating a digital version of all the original fiction manuscripts - a project of Oxford University and King's College London.

Accommodation for the Jane Austen Festival season can be found at Bath Holiday Rentals, who come highly recommended - you will find you have to book very early for accommodation in Bath at that time of year!

The inestimable genealogical work of Ronald Dunning is linked here; to quote from his message to us:

"I've managed to find a little of Mrs Cawley's (Ann Crawford's) pedigree, which can be seen in the working copy of my database, here.

"All of the names are hot links, and if I have any more information on individuals it will be on their own pages. I haven't yet looked further into Ralph Cawley's background.

"A one-time owner of the estate now occupied by the [Oxford] Radcliffe Hospital was Brome Whorwood, a collateral descendant of ancestors of Jane's mother Cassandra Leigh...

"Cassandra's mother, Jane Walker, had an Oxfordshire Pedigree. I've gone some way with Jane's maternal line, the Perrots of North Leigh... but we know nothing more about her paternal line than that her father was John Walker, Doctor in Physick of the University of Oxford, of the Parish of St Michael, City of Oxford.... Here is Jane Walker's pedigree."