Miss Austen: who's in the cast of the Jane Austen BBC series? - The series, which explores the life of the young Jane and ...

The Jane Austen Festival (September 12–21), plus a nautical Persuasion ball (May), a seaside Sanditon ball (June) and a ...

Caroline Sanderson is a non-fiction writer, editor and books journalist. Her books include a travel narrative, A Rambling Fancy: in the F ...

Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate ...

"She was a great fan of Jane Austen but these were the only rare books she ever bought and they would be brought out every now and then, treated carefully by the family, and then put back in the ...

In Jane Austen’s own century that actually would have been considered pretty abhorrent.” Significantly, Austen’s books have endless sly wit and cynicism, also unusual for her time.

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic ... Abbey” (published 1817), Austen’s first completed novel, a frisky satire on the pitfalls of letting books be your guide to life.

Jane Austen enthusiasts are being asked to help transcribe a handwritten manuscript biography of her brother Francis. The unpublished text details the life, travels and naval career of Admiral Sir ...

While Austen’s books parody the world that she lived in ... they force one into constant exertion” - 1801 letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Needlework, drawing and dancing ...