Happy New Year, everyone! 🥳🎊✨ After a wonderful 2025, we are excited to see what the new year brings! We hope your 2026 is filled with joy, love and laughter 🤍. #janeausten #janeaustencentre #happynewyear #newyear #regency | The Jane Austen Centre

‘The defining moment in Jane Austen's writing life’. #JaneAusten250 | Tuesday 16 December 2025 - Jane Austen’s 250th birthday 🎉 Bee Rowlatt - “Jane says, ‘My life is going to be different’. She chooses to be... an independent woman, to pursue her dream of being a writer.” Helen Fielding - “It's hard to have to marry someone you don't love... she's pretty brave, to say yes to him and then say no. That's a real independent spirit.” Dr Paula Byrne - “Her heroines say, ‘I will not marry without lov