What did Jane Austen read, in between writing "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma"? In "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," "Pawn Stars" ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

“Our bookend productions this season are both Jane Austen-focused, so there’s obviously a lot of love there,” says Tyler ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best ...

Interestingly, Jane Austen wasn't the only one in her family with a flair for writing; her brother James Austen was a poet and the first in the family to be published. Due to societal norms of the ...

January 2025 marks the 250th birth anniversary of novelist Jane Austen, and fans — known as "Jane-ites" — are celebrating.

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.

Adapted from Gill Hornby's novel, Miss Austen transports viewers to the era following Jane Austen's death, focusing on her sister Cassandra Austen, who is known for burning Jane's private ...

Jane Austen herself never married ... start of a women’s rights movement in the late 18th century, the Georgian era did not provide equal opportunities for men and women. This power imbalance ...