Goodbye and Good Riddance Smallpox!

The next major historical event on our Addicted Austenite list is Edward Jenner and his Smallpox vaccine. 

This episode explores the historical importance of Mary Wollstonecraft's writing and publishing A Vindication on the Rights of Woman and the parallels we can see in Jane Austen's own writing. 

This long-overdue episode is about the industrial revolution of the late 17- early 1800s and where we see it in Jane's novels.

This episode looks at the French Revolution and how it affected Jane's family.

Diving further into the historical context of Jane's novels, this episode looks at the Australian Penal Colony set up in 1788.

Continuing important historical events in Jane's life, this episode looks at the voyages of Captain Cook and the 'mysterious' way he died.

Starting off our run of important historical events during Jane's lifetime this episode looks at the American Revolution and War of Independence, the latter of which started the year Jane was born. Here is the link to the myths article I mention in the episode if you're curious (I do love a good bit of myth busting): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the-american-revolution-10941835/

This episode looks at whether or not Jane Austen knew some sign language, and what kind of sign language it might have been. 

This episode looks at the discussion of slavery in Mansfield Park and how much we're able to glean from it about Jane's own feelings about slavery and race issues.

This episode looks at how POC are remembered in British history, or more accurately, why they haven't been. This does cover the topic of slavery.