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

How better to celebrate the incredible and relevant woman she is and was than with our favorite Jane Austen quotes from her best ... Jane Austen, "Jane Austen's Letters 24 December 1798 ...

My tears flow as I write at the melancholy idea." Keeley Hawes plays Jane Austen's sister in new BBC drama Miss Austen (Credit: BBC) These letters, the earliest of Jane's that we have, suggest a ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

All the time she was writing ... Jane Austen had the company of one person who knew everything and told nothing. When Jane died, sister Cassandra kept it that way. She burned many of Austen’s ...

Take, for example, the dental visit experienced by Jane Austen, who recorded a rather ... round the Circular Table in the inner room writing our Letters, while the two Brothers are having a ...

Also featured are several of Austen’s letters ... Jane Austin” [sic], taken from Murray’s account book, show that Austen, unlike female authors from previous centuries, did not write ...

“They were all bright and all rather extraordinary, although Jane was the most extraordinary of all,” Hornby said. “She would write ... the letters are central to the drama, “Miss Austen ...