In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

How much of Ms. Jane Austen's personal life, wishes and dreams was brought into her work? But what about her Irish lover?

Legions of “Janeites” will spend 2025—the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth—truffle-hunting for undiscovered morsels in the life and work of English literature’s most famous ...

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We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants to dazzle critics and readers. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends ...

Attic Productions is celebrating its 30th anniversary, along with the 250th anniversary of author Jane Austen.

As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying other people’s curiosity. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew ...

Jane Austen came close to penning her bestselling romance novels in Ireland, I am told by my tour guide, Theresa Roche, who is elegantly dressed in a cherry-red Regency costume. Towards the end of ...

A group of beloved writers came together to honor the legacy of Jane Austen. Kwan said that he came to Austen “late in life,” at age 15. He began "binging” her novels, starting with 1811’s ...