To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

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

Students in Professor Carolyn Dever’s first-year seminar class put together an exhibit honoring author Jane Austen’s works on ...

Throughout the year of the author’s 250th birthday, the British spa town of Bath is celebrating its place as an Austen-lovers paradise. Jane Austen fans taking part in the world-famous Grand ...

The series tries to solve one of the largest literary mysteries that has continued to cause much debate, exploring why Jane Austen's sister ... it was around –5 degrees Celsius, and we were ...

5. Jane Austen never married, but Lefroy did. If Austen and Lefroy were so well suited to each other, why didn't they end up together? The general consensus is that Austen's lack of wealth played ...

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 ...

Based on the popular novel by Gill Hornsby, “Miss Austen” focuses on Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) who, through flashbacks, unravels their family story and their close ...

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 ...

Set in 1830, more than a decade after Jane’s untimely passing at 41, the story focuses on her surviving sister and dearest friend, the loyal and adoring Cassandra (Keeley Hawes, exquisite as ...