A new trail project is offering a fresh look at Jane Austen's early life. The Overton Jane Austen Trails have been launched to mark the 250th anniversary of the author's birth, providing a glimpse ...

Retrace the novelist's childhood haunts, visit the grand country piles that inspired her six novels or recreate the best ...

It took no Persuasion for the Overton Harriers Running Club to agree to swallow Pride and Prejudice and run a newly launched circular 9-mile ...

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, the ‘mania’ surrounding her genius shows no signs of abating. From ...

A specially-produced walking trail takes in some of the Southampton landmarks that Austen would have seen during her time in what was then a fashionable spa town. The Jane Austen's House Museum in ...

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.