Jane Tapley is currently the Special Events Organiser at the Theatre Royal Bath. She interviews visiting actors, writers and directors. She lectures regularly to theatre going societies, National Trust and history and fine arts groups. She is a West Country Tourist Board Registered Blue Badge Guide and Lecturer. She is an author and researcher of theatre programme notes on Hamlet, Sheridan's The Rivals and Jane Austen's Emma. She is a theatrical landlady! She is a Home Economist and consultant to various TV productions of Jane Austen adaptations on food in the 18th and 19th centuries. She hosts and cooks period meals in her Regency house in Bath for the Jane Austen Festival and other literary groups.