Just last Sunday, (while many of us watched the Giants beat the Patriots) PBS showed a new biopic of Jane Austen’s life to go along with their broadcast of all six of Jane’s novels. While the library doesn’t have that particular movie just yet, we do have a number of other biographies about Jane Austen, both book and video. Here are a few to get you started:

Jane Austen, by Carol Shields. Viking, 2001.

Jane Austen, an A&E biography.

Jane and Her Gentlemen: Jane Austen and the Men in Her Life and Novels, by Audrey Hawkridge. Peter Owen, 2000.

Jane Austen: A Life, by Clair Tomalin. Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

The Jane Austen Society of North America is “dedicated to the enjoyment and appreciation of Jane Austen and her writing.” Check out their websitefor news and events - a Dayton area chapter exists, if you’d like to get involved!

To see and understand Jane Austen’s life, there are several websites that can show you pictures and give tours of the house she lived in, the places she visited and the places where her novels were set. Really very cool.