English novelist Jane Austen (1775 - 1817). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... Some of her characters were named after real people. These included Mr Darcy of Pride and Prejudice, Wentworth ...

Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated writers of all time but apart from a rough sketch by her sister Cassandra, we have very little idea what she looked like. Biographer Dr Paula Byrne thinks ...

Jane Austen fans taking part in the world-famous Grand Regency Costumed Promenade are pictured as they walk around the Circus. Alamy Stock Photo It would ... first – the real charm lies in ...

There was another real life Henry Hobday, even born in Sussex (Jane Austen’s final work, Sanditon, was set in a seaside town in West Sussex), but he was born in 1859, according to records on ...

‘Miss Austen’ Cast Guide: Who’s Who in the New ‘Masterpiece’ Show About the Real Jane Austen’s Life and Death?

‘Janeites’, devotees of everything related to Jane Austen and her works, dress in gowns and stockings, attend Regency balls and make pilgrimages to the places where Austen lived and worke ...

Writing great sister acts (think the Bennett siblings of Pride and Prejudice, the Dashwoods of Sense and Sensibility) came naturally to Jane Austen. Or so we gather from Miss Austen, a poignant ...