Rather than projecting our own concerns, we should look at what she was reading and how she engaged with the ideas of her ...

Historians and Jane Austen fans alike know that Cassandra, Jane’s older sister, burned her sister’s letters after her death. Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s bestselling novel, reimagines that ...

Rose Leslie and Keeley Hawes lead an all-star cast in Masterpiece's miniseries mystery about Jane Austen and her sister, Cassandra.

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 ...

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 ...

The 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...

Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor ... free press. If real news is important to you, please consider making a donation of $5, $10 or ...