In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

She joins The Excerpt to detail her path down a 5-years-long rabbit hole to discover the many female writers that Jane Austen was influenced by, something scholars had outright dismissed or just ...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if ...

In an event presented by the Sonoma County Library and Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, author Miriam Thaggert will ...

The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of ...

Charlotte Brontë’s first-person masterpiece is a landmark in the novel of interiority, the history of feminism, and the ...

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And among the novelists, female writers were especially important. My annotated list in “Jane Austen, Abolitionist” includes more than a dozen female writers using the phrase between 1758 and ...

L.J. Smith, who was the author of the ‘Vampire Diaries’ series, died at age 66 on March 8 following a ‘long bout with illness ...

She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her ...

The first woman mayor of Scranton. The namesake of a local hospital. A female pediatrician. A former principal at Marywood University. A beloved community member. While Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, ...

So you haven't read Pride & Prejudice the classic novel by Jane Austen? Well, you're in for a treat as this female author has written an amazing satire with cutting humor on the 19th-century ...