Austen and the Church Resource List

JASNA Publications

• “The ‘Ordination’ of Fanny Price: Female Monasticism and Vocation in Mansfield Park” by Kathleen Anderson. Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (Winter 2014).
• "Commemorating Jane Austen’s Churches" and "Jane Austen's Churches" by Sue Bain. JASNA News Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2001).
• “The Village of Steventon” by Joyce Brown. Persuasions 19 (1997): 7-11.
• “In Defence of George Austen” by Jocelyn Creigh Cass. Persuasions 16 (1994): 55-62.
• “Displeasing Pictures of Clergymen” by Irene Collins. Persuasions 18 (1996): 109-119. 
• “The Rev. Henry Tilney, Rector of Woodston" by Irene Collins. Persuasions 20 (1998): 154-164. 
• “Churches, Chapels, Abbeys, and Cathedrals in Northanger Abbey” by Brenda S. Cox. Persuasions On-Line 40.1 (Winter 2019).

• “Satirical Cartoons and Jane Austen’s Church of England” by Brenda S. Cox. Persuasions On-line 42.1 (Winter 2021).

• "‘The Redemption of the World’: The Rhetoric of Jane Austen's Prayers" by Laura Dabundo. Persuasions 27 (2005): 242-252. (Reprinted in Laura Dabundo, The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth (Mercer University Press, 2012): 98-111.)
• "'My Idea of a Chapel' in Jane Austen’s World" by Sarah Emsley. Persuasions 24 (1997): 133-42.
• “‘A Clergyman Is Nothing’: A Present-Day Clergyman Delivers a Riposte to Mary Crawford" by Michael Kenning. Persuasions 36 (2014): 232-38.
• “Attending Divine Service in the Revd. George Austen’s Day” by Hugh D. McKellar. Persuasions 6 (1984): 7-9.
• “Northanger before the Tilneys: Austen’s Abbey and the Religious Past” by Roger E. Moore. Persuasions 41 (2019): 119-137.
• “‘A Nation Improving in Religion’: Jane Austen’s Prayers and Their Place in Her Life and Art” by Bruce Stovel. Persuasions 16 (1994): 185-96.
• “Tithes and the Rural Clergyman in Jane Austen’s England” by Eileen Sutherland. Persuasions 16 (1994): 48-54. 

Other Works

• Jane Austen, Three Prayers and a Poem by Jane Austen (The Friends of Godmersham Church, 2006).  Available in the U.S. through Jane Austen Books.
• Irene Collins, Jane Austen: The Parson’s Daughter (Hambledon, 1998, 2007).
• Irene Collins, Jane Austen and the Clergy (The Hambledon Press, 1994).
• Brenda S. Cox, Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen’s England (Topaz Cross, 2022).
• Brenda S. Cox, “Where Did Jane Austen Attend Church and Chapel in Bath?”
• Rachel Dodge, Praying with Jane: 31 Days through the Prayers of Jane Austen (Bethany House, 2018).
• Natasha Duquette, 30 Day Journey with Jane Austen (Fortress, 2020).
• William Jarvis, Jane Austen and Religion (The Stonesfield Press 1996).
• Deirdre Le Faye, Jane Austen's Steventon (Jane Austen Society, 2007).
• Peter Leithart, Jane Austen, Christian Encounters Series (Thomas Nelson, 2009).
• Laura Mooneyham White, Jane Austen’s Anglicanism (Ashgate, 2011).

• Roger E. Moore, Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape (Routledge, 2017).

• Margaret Wilson, Jane Austen’s Family and Tonbridge (Jane Austen Society, 2001).

Further Reading

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