Austen: The Works of Jane Austen

A teachers guide to introducing Jane Austen. View plenty of pre novel or film suggestions, and tons of material to use while reading or watching the film.

Jane Austen wrote about strong women, social boundaries, and relationship dynamics in the early 19th century to educate her readers about the state of humanity. Learn more about the themes woven throughout her works,...

More than 15 of Jane Austen's novels have been adapted into films. While viewers enjoy the lush sets, period costumes, and the depictions of eighteenth-century British gentry, what is often lost in these adaptations is Austen's satire. A...

A brief biography of British author, Jane Austen, with hyperlinks to her works and a chronology of her writing.

Site offers information about readers' response to Austen's writing, the themes in her novels, and specific discussion of "Emma."

Click on each title to explore how Jane Austen's characters, plots, and dialogue in her iconic novels "Sense and Sensibility" and "Emma" have remained relevant for today's audiences. Learn about "Sanditon," Austen's unfinished novel....

Provides more than 50 links to Jane Austen sites and online texts of Austen's writings. Some links no longer work but many still do.

By studying these resources, students will be able to more ably appreciate the complexity of Jane Austen's craft in representing the different classes of early 19th-century society. [PDF]

A fascinating personal look at the famous author, this site divides the work into well-labeled chapters. Downloadable.

This is a collection of three video clips from the production of Sanditon: MASTERPIECE, based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. Teaching materials and an Austen biography are included.