We tend to think of Jane ... book is a treasure chest for Austen fans, for whom comments like this, about writer Elizabeth Inchbald, will be as welcome as a jar of clotted cream at tea: “What ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers. By Sadie Stein Sadie Stein is an editor at the Book Review.

Janice Hadlow, whose book The Other Bennet Sister explores the transformation of priggish Mary into an intellectually curious woman, agrees that Austen’s work is a wealth of modern feminist ...

2025 marks 250 years since Jane Austen, the English writer known for her celebrated six novels, was born. Her first book, Sense and Sensibility, was published in 1811, and in the years since ...

In Jane Austen’s own century that actually would have been considered pretty abhorrent.” Significantly, Austen’s books have endless sly wit and cynicism, also unusual for her time.

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, the ‘mania’ surrounding her genius shows no signs of abating. From ...

This year, fans of the British romantic novelist Jane Austen are celebrating ... IZZY MEAKIN, Podcast Host, "What the Austen? ": You read her books and you can recognize people in your own life ...