The Dark Side of Jane Austen

For those of you interested in more information on Jane Austen and money (we only scratched the surface today!), I wanted to give you a couple of resources. Here is a useful article by an economist that goes into much further detail about the economy of Regency Britain. And below I’ve posted a short video by Austen scholar John Mullen that helps open up some nuance about how her characters understand class markers.

Happy to follow up on any questions you’re left with after reviewing these! If I don’t know the answers, I’ll help you find them.

For those interested, here is some more writing from Anna Laetitia and John Aikin, including the little fragment they wrote to illustrate their theory about Gothic suspense: Sir Bertrand, A Fragment

And here’s the “recipe” for a Gothic romance I discussed in class: