Jane Austen's World: Women's Lives in Regency England

Prof Sandie Byrne

Sandie Byrne is Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Studies in English, OUDCE and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.

Freya Gowrley

Freya Gowrley is a Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, and writes about the relationship between art and identity from the early modern period to the present day. She received her PhD in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Her work has explored the role of emotions in the decoration of the eighteenth-century home, the relationship between art and the body, and, most recently, the importance of collage as an art form that can express our most intimate relationships, worries, and desires. She is the author of Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability, and Emotion (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Kim Simpson

Prof Jon Stobart

Jon Stobart is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written on a variety of subjects in the history of retailing and consumption in the long eighteenth century, including the grocery trade, polite shopping, auctions of second-hand household goods, and the consumption practices of country house owners. His most recent book focuses on the lifestyles and homes of the parish clergy in Georgian England.