This runs concurrently with a more satirical impulse, the kind lampooned in Catherine Morland’s enthusiasms in Northanger ...

The novelist won readers’ hearts with the enduring appeal of her books – and this year the celebrations to mark 250 years since her birth will be in full swing ...

The British book publisher is set to release all six of Austen's classic novels with a bold and drastic new look next month ...

Austenites, assemble! Three counties in southwest England are hosting can’t-miss celebrations for Jane Austen’s 250th ...

In Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, the beloved character Mr Darcy believes that 'extensive reading' makes ...

After Jane's death aged 41, her sister Cassandra and brother Henry published two more of her books together - Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Henry also wrote a special biography about Jane to go ...

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part ...

The creative team behind PBS Masterpiece and the BBC’s period drama Miss Austen discuss how they have adapted Gill Hornby’s novel to shed light on a real literary mystery surrounding the life of Jane ...

A fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, Miss Austen is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One ...

I also couldn’t read the script or the book without crying – it's incredibly ... so I read Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, and didn’t realise what I'd been missing... so I’m now excited ...