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.

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

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 ...

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 show will bring together more than 100 rare manuscripts and first editions from the British Library, alongside 70 famous portraits of writers including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen ...

Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting ... In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath ...