Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s most quietly radical novel. As her first published work, it may be less ...

While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that ...

The Folio Society is marking Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with a collector’s edition fit for a literary icon. On Sept. 9 at 11 a.m. ET, the London-based publisher will release “Jane Austen: The ...

On the right side of the nave, facing the altar, is the marble statue by Flaxman of a young man — the 28-year-old James Stephen Lushington, a budding bureaucrat of the Bengal Civil Service, who died ...

This year is the 250th birthday of legendary author Jane Austen, and it’s a fair statement to say that more people than just the Brits are excited about it. Travelers will find a wide variety of ...

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

One evening in 1813, Jane Austen sat wincing in the drawing room of the house in Hampshire, England, where she lived with her mother. The cause of her discomfiture was her parent’s rushed and inexpert ...

Paula Byrne, an Austen scholar, was inspired to write 'Six Weeks by the Sea' because the question she is most frequently asked about the author is 'did she ever fall in love?' As someone who has been ...

Jane Austen’s collection of beloved titles is getting a refresh thanks to San Diego-based publisher Canterbury Classics. Canterbury Classics will unveil a commemorative collection of Jane Austen ...

Feminism as we know it today didn’t exist in Austen’s time—but there is still a great deal of feminist inspiration to be taken from the author’s novels, life, and legacy. All that being said, though, ...