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.

Or Jane Austen. A San Diego publisher is on the ... and on the other three sides of each book, the edges of the pages are color printed to connect and create a different, larger image.

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

Jane Austen’s birth, which makes it all the more appropriate to visit these historic houses and filming locations this year.

A regency actor who works at the Jane Austen ... Sutherland, an Austen researcher and professor at the University of Oxford. People feel Austen "is accessible, even though she is great literature, and ...

Here’s a hot take. Publishing beautiful books has never mattered more than now. Gorgeous covers, gilded edges, swirly endpapers and sharp illustrations have long been ways to give the words inside ...

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