The major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection Last year, when Janeites around the world marked the English ...

Emma Woodhouse is an enduring heroine. The main character of Jane Austen's 1815 novel "Emma," which is being brought to the stage in Seoul by Get in the Van Productions, has enthralled audiences for ...

The official trailer for the highly anticipated adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility has finally been released. Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay star in the upcoming production, which ...

The central subjects of Jane Austen’s work are romance and marriage, yet at the time of her death, at 41, she had never married. As Austen scholar Paula Byrne notes in the afterword to her new novel, ...

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Big anniversaries are coming up in 2026: 200 years since the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 250 since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 250 since Adam Smith published “The ...

Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years ...

From modern-day adaptations of her enduring classics to one that celebrates her iconic side characters, don't miss these Jane Austen favorites Lizz Schumer is the Senior Editor, Books, at PEOPLE. She ...

Caroline Jane Knight, the fifth great niece of the beloved author, speaks with PEOPLE about launching the nonprofit to spread literacy around the world Courtesy of Caroline Jane Knight 250 years after ...

In 1811, Thomas Egerton, who primarily printed military texts, published a novel about two sisters and their widowed mother, “Sense and Sensibility.” It was written anonymously, “by a lady.” More than ...

In her six completed novels, Jane Austen excelled at love stories: Elinor and Edward, Lizzie and Darcy, Fanny and Edmund, Emma and Knightley, Anne and Wentworth, heck even Catherine and Tilney. As her ...

It might look like a scene from yet another Jane Austen production, but this is no set. The British town of Bath recently held a celebration of the author 250 years after her birth. This historic ...