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 Bown. 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

Jane Austen Books offers resources on individual churches. 

In addition, the following posts about individual churches are available on the Jane Austen's World blog site.

• Brenda S. Cox, "Jane Austen’s Family Churches: St. Nicholas’, Steventon"

• Brenda S. Cox, "Jane Austen’s Family Churches: All Saints’ Church at Deane"
• Brenda S. Cox, "Jane Austen’s Family Churches: St. Nicholas’s Church, Chawton"
• Brenda S. Cox, "The Lefroy Family and the Church of Holy Trinity and St. Andrew at Ashe (Jane Austen’s Family Churches)"
• Brenda S. Cox, "The Stoneleigh Abbey Chapel and Mansfield Park"

• Brenda S. Cox, "Jane Austen’s Rich(er) Leigh Family Connections at Adlestrop and Stoneleigh Abbey (Jane Austen’s Family Churches)"

• Brenda S. Cox, "Jane Austen’s Family Churches: St. Michael and All Angels at Hamstall Ridware, and Austen’s First Cousin, Edward Cooper"

• Brenda S. Cox, "Visiting Great Bookham: Church of St Nicolas (and, Box Hill)"