Celebrate Jane Austen on her namesake riverboat as it cruises the Rhine

Channel your inner Jane Austen next month on a Rhine River cruise that will celebrate the bicentennial of the popular English novelist’s death.

The cruise, which will take place aboard Riviera Travel‘s MS Jane Austen, will include lectures and discussions with a historian who specializes in the author’s work.

Biographer Lucy Worsley, whose book, “Jane Austen at Home,” was recently released, is a royal palaces curator and BBC presenter.

Cruise passengers will receive a copy of her book, and events include autograph signings at an after-dinner talk about Austen, who died July 18, 1817. Among her six novels are “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice.”