Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated writers of all time but apart from a rough sketch by her sister Cassandra, we have very little idea what she looked like. Biographer Dr Paula Byrne thinks ...

Jane Austen is one of the world’s best-loved novelists. This year is the 200th anniversary of her death and to mark the occasion events are being held across the county of Hampshire in southern ...

Jane Austen’s novels have inspired countless films, plays, and dramas, and have been translated into almost 50 different languages. But how did an 18th century woman create stories that are ...

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire but a small tablet was unveiled to her memory in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, on 17th December 1967. This was given by The Jane Austen ...

What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? Her earliest writings follow firmly in the footsteps of Tristram Shandy in their deployment of heightened sentiment as a tool for satirising romantic novelistic ...