Kelvin Smith Library will join worldwide events, festivals, exhibitions and performances in celebrating the 250th Birthday of Jane Austen, her enduring legacy and her continued impact on literature ...

Explore four overlooked female novelists who influenced Jane Austen, from Frances Burney's witty social comedies to Maria Edgeworth's moral storytelling. Perfect reading for Austen fans.

In 1775, in a village in Hampshire, England, an author was born who would go on to be among the most influential and beloved in the world. In the state of New Hampshire this year, fans of Jane Austen ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

Jane Austen, a celebrated English novelist, penned enduring tales of love, marriage, and social class in early 19th-century England. Her sharp wit and keen observations of society, evident in novels ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

In an early scene in Kate Evans' Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, she depicts 3-month-old, bundled-up baby Jane being smuggled out through the back door of her family's large home. The ...