Most Brits will be familiar with the UK’s four different banknotes, even in an increasingly cashless society. Yet many have ...

Understandably confused as to why I could read Jane Austen at eight but had a habit ... I would chug gallons of water to artificially add the pounds, put on my reasonable face and agree to eat ...

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Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...

Adaptations of the author’s wise and witty novels have long entertained film and TV audiences. This year—the 250th ...

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Janeites still lament the loss of her unpublished words. Of the thousands of rumoured letters to Austen’s friends and family once in existence ...

Jane Austen has written some of the most iconic books ... and Rupert Friend (George Wickham). 5. Northanger Abbey (2007) Felicity Jones played Northanger Abbey’s heroine Catherine Morland ...

Cassandra Austen's 1795 hand-drawn copy of a plate from a 1786 drawing instruction manual Luke Shears / Jane Austen House When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were ...

Only 12 visitors at a time are allowed on guided tours through Jane Austen’s House ... Then we move on to note Austen’s tea canister behind glass, see her topaz cross, ring and bracelet ...