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

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

BBC's latest period drama, Miss Austen, transports us back in time to uncover more about the life of author Jane Austen and ...

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

Jane Austen is popular just about any time of the year, but she and her six most well-known novels are especially popular ...

The question is at the heart of new BBC drama Miss Austen, which is based on Gill Hornby's novel of the same name, and ...

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

The BBC drama is inspired by real life events - and real people in the Austen family. Following the death of Jane - the ...