freedom and fortune in an era when “experts” said that women who read novels (let alone wrote them) were probably morally ...

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

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 ...

T he 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English writer published ...

GIVE me period drama, historical fiction or anything that isn’t set in the modern day and I will be glued to it. I’ve got my ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best Austen-themed festivals, reenactments and balls of the year.

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

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

Although the four-part series has been adapted from Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen and is flourished with creative licence, it’s rooted in facts: namely her sister Cassandra Austen (played by ...

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.

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 ...