Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is releasing a brand-new recording for solo piano titled Jane Austen’s Piano, exploring music from Austen’s time. The record is scheduled for release on 5 December, ahead of the ...

There are some authors who have seen their works turned into films many times over. Well, they haven’t “seen” it necessarily, because they tend to be dead. William Shakespeare never got around to ...

Fevers, fatigue, and a changing complexion? Why modern doctors are still trying to make sense of the symptoms the celebrated novelist experienced before her death at age 41. This portrait of Jane ...

The author deemed Blake's portrait of Georgina Quentin the spitting image of Jane Bennet. William Blake, Portrait of Mrs. Q [Harriet Quentin] (1820). Image Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum.

Members of the Hampshire Regency Dancers practice their moves Sept. 10 in Winchester, England, the burial place of author Jane Austen. (Photos by Joanna Chan/Associated Press) LONDON — Ellie Potts ...

The train from London to Bath takes less than 90 minutes—and whisks you 300 years back in time. The UNESCO World Heritage city’s honey-hued crescents and colonnades immediately make you feel as if you ...

When Jane Austen, a figure revered across the globe for her portraits of human nature, began her writing career, it was completely anonymous. Her first novels were simply marked as “the author,” ...

LONDON (AP) — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more ...

People who love sharing their passion for the world of Jane Austen say they have been busier than ever preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the author's birth. Theresa Roche is a Jane ...

While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that ...

The Folio Society is marking Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with a collector’s edition fit for a literary icon. On Sept. 9 at 11 a.m. ET, the London-based publisher will release “Jane Austen: The ...

Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s most quietly radical novel. As her first published work, it may be less ...