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 former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to Mrs. Smith, a former classmate who is now a penniless widow, confined to ...

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.

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

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew out of her long admiration for Austen’s confident and witty writing. In her novels and letters ...

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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