In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

If you’ve ever done that, you’ll probably appreciate Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society, and Literature, a collection of hundreds of quotes from Austen’s ...

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female ... guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to ...

An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: her letters and books. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” surveys the ...

In her new book, Rebecca Romney chronicles her path down a five-years-long rabbit hole to discover the many female writers that Jane Austen was influenced by, something scholars had outright ...

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when a book does ... tales of romance, society and hard economic truths began to attract a wide audience and critical acclaim. Austen’s skewering ...

A book borne out of pain, Jenner’s debut novel, “The Jane Austen Society,” pays homage to this enduring legacy and the importance of having such touchstones. Jenner’s personal story has its own ...

In “Jane Austen ... Ms. Romney noticed, Austen alluded to a number of woman novelists she read and admired. Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the ...

Jane Austen is buried in ... of a country clergyman, George Austen, and his wife Cassandra (Leigh) and was born at the rectory at Steventon in Hampshire on 16th December 1775. In her books she ...

Opinion: As Jane Austen ... society with her Bertram cousins and the Crawford family, Fanny is painfully shy and obedient to a fault. For me, it was the partly other characters that made this book ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...