The museum upends various misconceptions about the novelist’s life by celebrating the anniversary of her birth through a fresh, intimate glimpse at her personal artifacts, manuscripts and more.

The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so fascinated by Jane Austen 250 years after her birth.

Seeing the nonce word on label text in “A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250” at the Morgan Library & Museum, I find it an apt, meta reference to Austen herself, her characters and the readers in ...

The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so fascinated by Jane Austen 250 years after her birth.

“We have very few of Austen’s effects, so the ring is very unusual,” Louise West, Jane Austen’s House Museum manager, told The Guardian as to their interest in the ring. “It has very ...

The Morgan Library & Museum’s “A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250” celebrates the landmark anniversary of Austen’s birth by chronicling the author’s life and continuing afterlife with ...