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

“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 ...

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If you’ve ever done that, you’ll probably appreciate Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society, and Literature, a collection of hundreds of quotes from Austen’s ...

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 ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.