The Jane Austen Reading Project

It all started with Tom Shippey really…

As you know from the Tolkien Reading Project Tom has made some significant contributions to Tolkien scholarship. Having enjoyed his work there, when an opportunity to listen to his lecture series “Heroes of Literature” on Audible I gave it a go…

All of the usual suspects were there, Beowulf, Oddyseus, Frodo (yay!) there was also Elizabeth Bennett (really?). Intriqued I visited my local Waterstones book store to pick up a copy of “Pride and Predjudice”, however there was a really nice and reasonably priced “Collected Works” in hardback. So why not read them all? And while you are at it, let’s find out more about Jane herself and the time she lived in…

Hence there’s now a significant chunk of shelf space dedicated to Jane.

I have listed all these owned works in the reading list here , and you can find my notes on each of the works by searching out the “jane-austen” tag in my reviews section (TBD).