You Are Elizabeth Bennet
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
18th Century
A collection of 11 Posts
What Matters in Jane Austen?
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian
We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'
Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope
On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.
The Most Famous Actress in the Georgian World
On her retirement the television producer Jo Willett set out to write a biography of Sarah Siddons
Fire at the Guildhall
Leonora Nattrass takes us back to 18th century Cornwall and a brewing political scandal
Life and Death
Sean Lusk's spellbinding tale of one young man’s quest for the truth in the 18th century
The Academie
Anna Mazzolla tells a story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, inspired by the real-life disappearance of children in pre-revolutionary Paris