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
- 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: 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
- 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
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
- College English
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
- 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
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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.