The series follows the rivalry between two families: the wealthy and powerful Van Ness clan, led by matriarch Constance ...

“Window seat with garden view / A perfect nook to read a book / I’m lost in my Jane Austen…” sings Kristin Chenoweth in “The Girl in 14G” — what could be more ideal? Well, perhaps showing off your ...

For decades, people have paused outside of No. 8 College Street next to the campus of Winchester College in England. The only detail of the painted brick building’s façade that gives away its ...

Jane Austen, born Dec 16, 1775, revolutionized the English novel with wit and insight. Her novels explore social class, women's rights, and the pursuit of love. Austen died on July 18, 1817, at 41; ...

Few writers have made a greater mark on Western literature than Jane Austen. Her six novels, comedies of manners critiquing the landed gentry of Regency England, were groundbreaking at the time.

This year marks the English novelist’s 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal Ellen Wexler - ...

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 ...