Award-winning author Sheila Johnson Kindred
brings the naval world of Jane Austen to life through her meticulously researched and vivid writing. Her latest book Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen is a revealing account of a naval officer’s young wife, her life during the Napoleonic wars, and her influence on Jane Austen’s fiction.
Banner Image: Herbert Grey Austen RN. Courtesy of a private collection
the book
“Those of us who are fascinated by every aspect of Jane Austen’s experience, and how it feeds into her imagination and understanding of the world, must feel grateful to Sheila Kindred for writing Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister.”
Maggie Lane, author of Getting Older with Jane Austen and On the Sofa with Jane Austen
News
Sheila was a Jane Austen Society of North America Travelling Lecturer for 2022-2023.
She will be speaking by Zoom for 2024-2025
upcoming event
17 August 2025
Sheila will be one of the speakers in a celebration of Jane Austen at 250 in the Public Gardens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, at 4:30 pm. She will introduce the Austen family’s connection to Halifax before others read from her works.