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Every card in this deck is based on a character or scene from Jane Austen's novels. The suits have been adapted to her world: candles for wands, pens for swords, and denarii (period coins) for pentacles. It is a full 78-card tarot, conceived and written by Diane Wilkes, with illustrations by Italian artist Lola Airaghi, who trained at the Scuola del Fumetto di Milano.
The suits are renamed after objects from Austen's era, but the structure of a standard tarot remains fully intact.
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Jane Austen wrote about marriage, class, irony and character. Those are also precisely the themes tarot has worked with for centuries. That overlap is the foundation of this deck: 78 cards that carry not the standard Rider-Waite-Smith imagery, but characters and scenes from novels like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma.
The deck is published by Lo Scarabeo and arrives in February 2026. Diane Wilkes, a Certified Tarot Grand Master with a Master's degree in English, developed the concept and wrote the guidebook. Lola Airaghi, an Italian illustrator trained at the Scuola del Fumetto di Milano in Milan, created the artwork.
The four suits are adapted to Austen's world: candles replace wands, pens replace swords, and denarii (historical coins) stand in for pentacles. Cups remain cups. Each of the 78 cards is tied to a specific character or a recognisable scene, which means you can read the images with or without familiarity with classical tarot symbolism.
Whether you know Mr. Darcy better than the High Priestess or the other way around, the architecture of a complete tarot deck is still there. The Major Arcana, the Minor Arcana, the court cards: all present, dressed in Austen's world.
Literary tarot decks exist, but decks built this specifically around a single author are rarer. Wilkes brings a background in both literature and tarot, and that shows in how carefully the mapping between card and novel has been constructed. This is not a decorative Austen product. It is a functioning tarot with a consistent thematic layer running through every card.
The guidebook runs to 128 pages. What exactly those pages contain, whether that is card descriptions, spreads or an introduction to Austen's work, is not specified in the available information. Worth checking if that matters to you.
If you know Austen, you will recognise the characters immediately. If you do not, the deck still works as tarot, with unfamiliar but readable imagery.
Diane Wilkes has been reading and teaching tarot for over thirty years, primarily in the Philadelphia area. She holds a Master's degree in English and is a Certified Tarot Grand Master. Her earlier project, the Storyteller Tarot, is a Major-Arcana-only deck that pairs each card with a story. The Jane Austen Tarot follows the same logic: tarot as literature.
Lola Airaghi is an Italian illustrator who studied at the Scuola del Fumetto di Milano, a school with a strong tradition in narrative visual art. No further details about her visual style for this deck are available in the current information.
Do I need to know Jane Austen's novels to use this deck?
No. The cards follow the structure of a standard 78-card tarot, including both Major and Minor Arcana. Knowing Austen's work adds an extra layer, but it is not a requirement for reading the cards.
What language are the cards and guidebook in?
Both are in English. The card titles and the 128-page guidebook are English throughout.
| Uitgeverij | Lo Scarabeo |
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| SKU | 1234-EX324 |
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