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

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?

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

The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of ...

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In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Gali Captain Wali in Old Delhi, once lively, now feels deserted. Saif, a machine repairer, reflects on its past, while silence prevails in narrow lanes.