The sounds of spoons clinking on teacups filled the Brunswick Branch Library as Jane Austen looked on stoically from a black and white portrait. About 50 visitors, whose ages ranged from 3-year-olds ...

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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 ...

The portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra is much loved even though we cannot see her face, only her clothes. How do we read the costumes and social symbols in paintings from 18th century ...

What does it do for us? As Claire Harman says in her book, Jane’s Fame, Austen has “conquered the world”. Perhaps because her portraits of the lives of women are so well-observed they always ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Indeed, Writers Revealed: Treasures From the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London is a world-first. Clearly, it's a special treat for word nerds — especially if you're a fan of Jane ...