The sounds of spoons clinking on teacups filled the Brunswick Branch Library as Jane Austen looked on stoically from a black ...

How might it change our image of the author? And what might the portrait reveal about Jane Austen and her world? Martha Kearney seeks answers as she follows Dr Byrne on her quest.

On the front of the new note is the portrait of the Queen as well as Winchester Cathedral, Jane Austen's final resting place, in gold-coloured foil over a see-through window. In the top left ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice appears on best-loved literature lists across the globe, is a fixture in high school ...

HOTA's exhibition will feature rare manuscripts, first editions and portraits of literary luminaries, including William ...

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One Yorkshire academic is set to give a major lecture at the National Portrait Gallery about Jane Austen’s use of portraits in her novels to mark the anniversary. Professor Joe Bray, of the ...

A 5mm portrait of Jane Austen was put on the transparent part of the plastic Bank of England £5 notes A year has passed since four special £5 notes, engraved with a tiny 5mm portrait of author ...

The daughter of a clergyman, Austen anonymously published four novels in her lifetime with modest success, but she wrote seven in total and left another two unfinished when she died at the age of 41.

And, alongside the portrait, the new note has been emblazoned ... In the meantime, Bank of England Governor Mr Carney has said: “Jane Austen certainly merits a place in the select group of ...

The world-first exhibition brings together artefacts from the British Library and portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Sitting at her table with her quill and inkpot spinning out yarns about the horrors of uninvited guests, it is unlikely that Jane Austen, mistress of the OG chick lit, would have devoted any ...