This year, fans of the British romantic novelist Jane Austen are celebrating 250 years since her birth. In her homeland of ...

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

Chilham in Kent is a village that has been frozen in time, with its medieval architecture and charming countryside making it ...

. Fanny Price-Mansfield Park: The author is best remembered for her bold, witty heroines like Lizzie Bennet, a rarity at the ...

The BBC drama is inspired by real life events - and real people in the Austen family. Following the death of Jane - the author of Pride & Prejudice - her sister Cassandra burned all her personal ...

Until, that is, the role of Jane Austen came along. “I’m always drawn to characters who get to be the smartest person in the room, because that’s not me at all in real life,” says Ferran ...

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.

On top of the 250th author's anniversary, it celebrates 30 years since the four film and TV adaptations were first seen in 1995, including the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which famously saw ...

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Acclaimed author Jane Austen will be turning 250 this year with plenty of celebrations taking place across Britain to mark the life and works of the Pride and Prejudice writer. Along with the ...

Esteemed novelist Jane Austen will be commemorated on her 250th birthday this year, with a host of festivities planned across the UK to honour the Pride and Prejudice author's life and literary ...