An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: ...

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

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?

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

Romney vividly communicates her sometimes surprised enjoyment of the works that shaped Austen, finding them in some ways ...

By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s ...

It's a truth universally acknowledged that the Regency writer Jane Austen continues to inspire in this her 250th anniversary ...

Jessica Bull has been in love with the writer ever since the first episode of Pride and Prejudiced aired on the BBC in 1995.

Celebrate the brilliant mind behind your favourite classics with Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Born on December 16, 1775, ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however ... Following in Austen’s footsteps, these were the authors whose works Ms. Romney set out to collect. Writing during “the first time in English ...