Anna Walker

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Jane Austen's Paper Trail · Q&A: experts answer your Jane Austen questions · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

Hello, John.

And completing our trio is the director of Jane Austen's house in Hampshire, Lizzie Dunford.

Thanks so much for joining us, Lizzie.

Thank you for having me.

So to kick us off, I'm rummaging around in my sort of virtual bag of letters for Jane Austen.

And we have an email from a listener called Sarah Hoxbergen.

Sarah writes, I'm curious to know what we know about Jane Austen and faith, and also Jane Austen and religion.

How did Austen's personal faith influence her?

And how did she view the institution of the church in her day?

Lizzie, can you shed some light on that one?

I think that makes the distinction really clear there actually between, as the question asked, Austen's faith perhaps, and then her thoughts on the institution of the church.

From what you've said, John, they seem to be quite different.

Lizzie or Emma, can you think of any other examples from Austen's books that are particularly interesting for understanding the faith aspect of that question?

Well, I've forgotten most of what I learned at GCSE Science, so I'd say Austin and I are in a similar boat.

Moving on to a question from Clementine Burney.

Clementine would like to know, would Jane Austen have considered herself a feminist?

Emma, what do you think on that one?

Izzy and John, do either of you want to come in on that one as well?

I think we see in her letters as well, there's really nothing Austen won't find a way to make funny.

There's some really black humour, as we've talked about in the podcast, in those letters.

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