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.

A new walking tour in Southampton is set to retrace the footsteps of Jane Austen’s life in the city. The Hampshire-born novelist is said to have attended boarding school in Southampton ...

Celebrate the brilliant mind behind your favourite classics with Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Born on December 16, 1775, it’s the perfect excuse for a trip to England this year, writes Mauriz ...

Lady Jane Grey, a teenage pawn in the power struggles that plagued the Tudor court, ruled England for just nine days and was later executed for treason. Now, researchers believe they may have ...

School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have ...

Or robot romances. Or Jane Austen. A San Diego publisher is on the cutting edge of crafting lovely looking paper books that make statements as literary and aesthetic objects. Canterbury Classics ...

A regency actor who works at the Jane Austen Centre adjusts a waxwork model of Jane Austen, in Bath, Somerset (AFP photo) BATH, United Kingdom — Ballgowns are being stitched, bonnets brushed and tea ...

The Jane Austen-hits-LA comedy changed fashion, language and cinema. As it turns 30 and a new stage musical version opens, its writer and director discusses why it's so personal to her.

"Jane Fonda did that for me," she said. "There's a story in the book ... she called me to her house to have a very difficult conversation about my bad behavior. It was very scary ... she called me ...

Jane Austen: Rise Of a Genius is the story of how a self-taught young woman from a small Hampshire village became one of the greatest novelists who ever lived Contributor and author Helen Fielding ...