B reak out your finest Regency-era dress and book a flight, pastoral England is the place to be this season. Jane Austen’s ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

An archive has revealed a handwritten copy of a 200-year-old poem originally written to prove rhyming is easy after an argument at a breakfast table. Marking World Poetry Day, Longleat in Wiltshire ...

But Miss Austen gives us intriguing speculation ... the series also deviates from fact in its depiction of an incident in Jane's life in the early 1800s. She may have met a young gentleman ...

But Miss Austen gives us intriguing speculation ... the series also deviates from fact in its depiction of an incident in Jane’s life in the early 1800s. She may have met a young gentleman ...

There was speculation that she could have been behind Jane Austen's classics when they were first published anonymously. The 64-line copy of the poem is contemporary to the time and is within the ...

James Edward Austen-Leigh did publish the first full biography of his aunt with the help of his sisters, although not until 1869. However, the series also deviates from fact in its depiction of an ...