This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. In celebration, rare book company Type Punch Matrix will display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her ...

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

Pride and Prejudice' may be the one to beat, but there's a screen version to please every one of the author's admirers ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually every part of that sentence is wrong. Rebecca Romney, the author and occasional “Pawn Stars” guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her ...

“I think people are also looking to upgrade their collection, having nicer editions ... Classics has sold around 850,000 copies of Jane Austen’s books and more than 10 million copies of ...

The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this ... whose reputations were not fully eclipsed by Austen’s until late in the 19th century. American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers ...

by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: her letters and books. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” surveys the female writers she admired and whose novels laid the groundwork ...

On the day NPR visited Romney at the shop, the author glowed at the sight of her collection and the voices represented in it. Rebecca Romney's book, Jane Austen's Bookshelf, is displayed at Type ...

In “Jane Austen ... Ms. Romney noticed, Austen alluded to a number of woman novelists she read and admired. Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the ...