Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by ...

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 ...

Caroline Jane Knight, the fifth great niece of the beloved author, speaks with PEOPLE about launching the nonprofit to spread literacy around the world Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

“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 ...

From first editions to movie posters, the second floor gallery at the Grolier Club on the Upper East Side is all Jane, all the time. Jane Austen, that is. Austen wrote six novels that have captivated ...

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; ...

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 ...

Joanne Wenman works at The Abbey School in Reading which was named in memory of the school where Austen studied A librarian who works at a school named in memory of the one where Jane Austen studied ...

A librarian who works at a school named in memory of the one where Jane Austen studied says she was "excited" to discover she had family connections to the author. Joanne Wenman works at The Abbey ...

Why do I reread Jane Austen’s novels? I appreciate how the heroines exhibit grace and virtue during life’s joys and trials. These timeless tales are perfectly paired with a batch of scones and a good ...

In a peaceful valley among gentle rolling hills in Hampshire is a field much like any other in this part of southeast England. Seen through the hedgerow from a narrow country lane there’s nothing to ...