Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the eighteenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Ann from @disneyprincesslessons and @paper.hearts.library. We are back and today we are covering the villains in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and comparing them against Disney Villains. Don't miss out on our other episodes: Pride and Prejudice villains (Ep 15) Mansfield Park villains (Ep 17) Disney Princess...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the seventeenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Ann from @disneyprincesslessons and @paper.hearts.library. We are back and today we are covering the villains in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and comparing them against Disney Villains. Don't miss out on our episode where we covered Pride and Prejudice villains (Ep 15) or our Disney Princesses x Jane Austen Heroine Epi...

Send us a Text Message.It's here! the new Netflix Persuasion adaption staring Dakota Johnson, which takes a modern approach to Jane Austen's intimate novel. I am excited to say that I have Jillian and Yolanda from the Pemberley Podcast joining me to discuss this new adaption. Jillian and Yolanda are no strangers to analysing Austen adaptions and I like to think I have a good recollection of the books so will be fun to compare how the new adaption not only sizes up to the books, but adaptions ...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode we are matching Pride and Prejudice villains to Disney villains who share similar characteristics. Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Ann from @disneyprincesslessons and @paper.hearts.library. So many of you loved the Disney princess episode, so we thought we would come back and compare Jane Austen's villains to Disney Villains. Again we found so many ...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Ellis from @historian_Ellis. In this episode, we discuss Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, specifically focusing on the character of Edward Ferrars and what makes a hero. Often in Jane Austen's work the hero only merits the title because they marry out protagonist, however in this episode we will see if Edward has qualities...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the Thirteenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by regular on the pod Caily from @half_agony_half_hope. In this episode, we will continue playing the roll of the sorting hat and placing the wonderful Austen heroines into their houses. This episode will cover Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. We will look at a primary and secondary house for each, and convince one an other of our choices.&n...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the Twelfth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my part-time co-host and fellow Janeite Caily from @half_agony_half_hope. In this episode, we will be playing the roll of the sorting hat and placing the wonderful Austen heroines into their houses. We will look at a primary and secondary house for each, and convince one an other of our choices. Me and Caily both love Harry Potter and Austen so this was such a fun epis...

Send us a Text Message.Episode 11: Who wants to be a millionaire? Discussing who is the wealthiest Jane Austen hero with Charlie from @thebookboyWelcome to the eleventh episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Charlie from @thebookboy. In this episode, we will discuss how wealth is portrayed with in Austen's novels. We will specifically be focusing on some of the heroes, who is the wealthiest, how is their income talked about...

Send us a Text Message.Esteemed members of the Ton,Welcome to the tenth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my friend and fellow Janeite Martha from @marthabethanreads. In anticipation for the new season which airs next month, in this episode we will be discussing Bridgerton! We will specifically focus on Season 1 of the the Netflix series which is based on Julia Quinns book The Dunk and I (Book 1 in the Bridgerton series), but we will also discuss ...

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to the Ninth episode of the What the Austen? podcast! I'm your host Izzy, and I am joined by my part-time co-host and fellow Janeite Caily from @half_agony_half_hope. In this episode, we discuss the power of the letters in Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility. We will explore how Jane Austen uses letters in her novels to drive the novels plot forward and to expose deeper truths between characters. From Darcy's letter of revelations to Willou...