The resources on this page are specific to Jane Austen and her novels, and target high school and undergraduate college students and teachers. For upper graduate information about 18th and 19th Century British Literature and resources about writing, click here.
Student
- About Jane Austen
- Finding Jane Austen
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen Biography
- Jane Austen Index
- Jane Austen, Writer
- Jane Austen’s Novels as a Guide to Social and Individual Responsibility for High School Students
- Jane Austen Fandom Thrives at Colleges
- Jane Austen’s Juvenilia
- Jane Austen:Brooklyn U, 2005
- JASA: Study Guide for Students: Pride and Prejudice
- Links to Jane Austen on the Web
- Literary Study Tour: Jane Austen, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- Digging for Treasures: Researching the Historical, Barbara Dawson Smith
- Pride and Prejudice in Bitesize Pieces: BBC, includes test questions
- Pride and Prejudice Play Guide: Study Guide
- Springfield Students Retrace Jane Austen’s Steps in England, includes audio
- Video Summaries and Quizzes of Pride & Prejudice by Rocketbook
Teacher
- Art and Culture: Jane Austen
- Articles About Jane Austen: NY Times
- Emma and Clueless: Transforming Jane Austen
- In the Footsteps of Jane Austen: The Cultured Traveler
- Jane Austen and Her Time
- Jane Austen: Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources
- Jane Austen Pathfinder
- Jane Austen Teacher Resource File
- Jane Austen: 86 Manually Selected Sites
- Jane Austen’s Novels as a Guide to Social and Individual Responsibility in High School Students
- Jane Austen: Reader Responses to Austen’s Novels
- Jane Austen: Women’s History, King’s College
- JASA: Study Guide for Students: Pride and Prejudice
- Literary Gothic: Jane Austen
- Lit Plans: Jane Austen
- Living in the Nineteenth Century With Jane Austen: Webquest
- Media, Technology, and Jane Austen: Happy Endings, PBS Teacher
- Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment: A Curriculum for Middle and High School Teachers
- Neoclassicism and the Instinct to Order
- Neoclassicim Picturesque
- Pride and Prejudice: Lesson Plan Library
- Pride and Prejudice Play Guide: Study Guide
- Pride and Prejudice, Unit Prepared by Julie Wilson
- Reading and Teaching Our Way Out of Jane Austen Novels (Naval Options), Robert G. Dryden
- Using Technology to Teach Pride and Prejudice
- Understanding the Major Themes in Pride and Prejudice
- Lit Plans: Jane Austen
- Persuasion Lesson Plans: Teach With Movies
- Playing Games With Jane Austen: A Curriculum Unit for Teachers and Resource Site for Students
- Teach With Movies: Pride and Prejudice (Three Versions)
- The Complete Guide to Teaching Jane Austen, PBS, 2008, 24 p. PDF Doc
- Web English Teacher: Jane Austen Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources
College Level
- An Enquiry-Based Learning Course Based on Jane Austen, Dr. Bill Hutchings, Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning, Resource Pack, The University of Manchester
- Syllabus: Jane Austen and the Culture of Romanticism
- College English
- Jane Austen: James Mulholland, Wheaton College, YouTube video lectures. Read the first; find the rest in the sidebar.
The Novels
- Property Law in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
- Understanding the Society in Which Jane Austen Sets Pride and Prejudice, JASNA
- Pride and Prejudice Reader Guide
- Pride and Prejudice Study Guide
- Emma: Worsheet Answer Key, Macmillan Readers
- Emma Reading Guide
- Emma: The Literature Network
- Emma Adaptations Page
- Spark Notes Mansfield Park
- Definition and Redefinition: Finding a Home in Mansfield Park
- Penguin Guides Sense and Sensibility
- Sense & Sensibility: The Literature Network
- The Exploration of Human Experience in Northanger Abbey, PDF document
- Competing Visions: Northanger Abbey in Film and Illustrations
- Persuasion: Jane Austen Notes
- Jane Austen, Persuasion and the Pursuit of Happiness, Claire Eileen Tarison, Lethridge Undergraduate Research Journal
- Study Guide to Persuasion
Compendiums
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A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, Laura C. Lambdin, Robert T. Lambdin, 2000, partial book available
- A Jane Austen Encyclopedia, Paul Poplawski, 1998, partial book available
- Study Guides and information on Jane Austen
- Study Guides: Australia
- The Talk in Jane Austen, Bruce Stovel, Lynn Weinlos Gregg, Jane Austen Society of North America, University of Alberta, 2002, partial book available
- The Wisdom of Jane Austen, Shawna Mullen, 2003, partial book available
- Jane Austen, B.C. Southam, 1995, critical review, partial book available
- Jane Austen Etc: The Completions, Continuations and Adaptations of Her Novels, Bibliography compiled by Rolf Breuer
Online Learning
- Fathom: The Source for Online Learning: Impact of the East India Company
Teacher Blogs and Websites
- English and Continental Literature: Ellen Moody
Articles and Journals
- Jane Austen and the Sin of Pride, Jim Wolfe, 1999
Blogs
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Where do I start I want a basic course however my modest learning ability hass only just reached level 2 Undergraduate.
I am fascinated by jane austin and would love to start somewhere.
Can you help direct me. Thanks Anne
Hello Anne,
Thank you for your question. I would discuss your interest with the head of the English Department at your university. He or she will steer you to a first level course on 18th century or 19th century English Literature. Jane Austen is associated with Romanticism, so you might read those course descriptions as well.
On my own, I would simply start reading Jane Austen’s books. Some people who are new to her novels encounter difficulty reading her language. Listening to podcasts might help as you are reading. (Jane’s words sound wonderful spoken) Librivox offers the podcasts for free. (See the AV/E-Texts tab.) If you decide to go it alone, the last link in the student section leads you to a series of videos about Pride and Prejudice. As you finish reading a chapter in the book, you can click on the video that corresponds to the chapters, read the summaries and answer a few questions. (The Rocketbook video sits at the top of the page.)
Good luck! If you are curious, I began with Pride and Prejudice, then read Persuasion.
hi!
where do i find information about the popularity of jane austen in the 20th and 21st century?
thanks
Simply google the words “Jane Austen’s popularity”, and articles like these pop up:
The Revival of Jane Austen
On Jane Austen’s Popularity
Tracing Jane Austen’s Popularity
etc.
Wow, I love this teacher/student section of the blog. In in Yr 10 and i’ve read all of Jane Austen’s novels at least twice. I started in the holidays last year. Pride and prejudice was so good I went on to persuasion. This fired me up and I made it my goal to finish all her novels asap and now I’m done!
Somehow, there really is a timeless quality in her works that appeals to everyone (at least us women) and affects them on a different level. She is truly great and I love that you have a blog and all to show it. I have recently been extra keen on learning more about the context etc. I’m even starting to read The mysteries of Udolpho (Catherine’s fav. novel as you know) as they say that Jane Austen was influenced by the author and read the books herself.
I have been persuading everyone in my year group that Jane Austen is a better read than Stephanie Meyer, and have succeeded to different degrees…but anyways, it’s just so suprising that Austen has stayed at the top in the “book market” since the 19th century and we are now in the 21st century… amazing.
note- sorry about the long post! ^^
No problem, Ling. I enjoy feedback. Have you thought of telling your students to download the podcasts of her novels? To some modern ears, Jane’s old-fashioned language is easier to understand when spoken, and the novels seem more accessible that way. See my podcast section.