From domestic disasters in royal households to messy parlour games and recipes from Jane Austen’s own cook, this book gives a number of intimate vignettes into the late Georgian and Regency Christmas.  

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Some of the surviving letters from Jane to her sister Cassandra have been quoted, despite the latter not only editing and destroying many after Jane’s death.  Even so, Jane’s acerbic wit and indeed mixed feelings as her guests depart into the snows and cold after staying for at least the full twelve days, will find an echo among those readers who have had to play host over the Christmas season.

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The accounts and excerpts from her works are supported by contemporary accounts drawn from a wide range of contemporary sources, many of whose names will be familiar today.

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Jane Austen’s Christmas is published by The History Press and available online or though most good bookstores.