By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s ...

The rare books are part of a new permanent exhibition, “Jane Austen and the Art of Writing,” at her family’s former cottage in Chawton, a village located some 50 miles from London.

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book ... the sight of her collection and the voices represented in it. Rebecca Romney's book, Jane Austen's Bookshelf ...

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 ...

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

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

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca ... the author glowed at the sight of her collection and the voices represented in it. Rebecca Romney's book ...