There’s a reason Jane Austen is one of English literature’s most beloved writers—or as she would have referred to herself, an authoress. Her heroines are witty, vivacious and whip smart. They’re ...

Love, for Jane Austen, had more to do with understanding than fantasy. She rarely gave her characters perfect endings without some mess first. That’s part of what makes her writing feel grounded. On ...

Jane Austen's novels take place against a backdrop of war, although battlefields and battlegrounds are unmentionable. The War of 1812, fought by Great Britain against the United States, silently ...

In the second episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, we speak to Austen experts about her views on love, and the role of ...

Do you know that it on this day in history that Jane Austen, Award-winning English novelist and one of the most widely read writers in English literature was born? Fondly describes as the queen of ...

Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers have encoded a quote from Jane Austen's classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without ...

We live in a Jane Austen universe. A book about a book club that reads only Jane Austen is firmly entrenched on our bestseller lists. Keira Knightley -- one of Hollywood's reigning "It" girls -- is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Austen‘s novels have been adapted by Hollywood plenty. Amazon Studios and Di Novi Pictures have acquired for feature the Rachel Givney breakout novel, Jane in Love, that will make her ...

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