there wasn't enough information to create a biography that would have brought her new readers and new generations as is what happened with Jane Austen. Samuel Johnson was a giant of English ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however ... In the 1880s, the poet Christina Rossetti had wanted to write a biography of the bestselling Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe. But even with the ...

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

This month, pile your nightstand with buzzy literary fiction, a memoir by Melinda French Gates, a posthumous release by Joan ...

Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate history become part of the official Jane Austen biography. But ...

Lucy Worsley, who is the author of Jane Austen At Home: A Biography, will join you on the four-day break. Austen lived in Bath between 1801 and 1806, and Lucy will join you on a Jane Austen-themed ...

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf ... Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs In this non-traditional and multifaceted biography, poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs combed through Audre Lorde’s manuscript archives ...

James Edward Austen-Leigh did publish the first full biography of his aunt with the ... from fact in its depiction of an incident in Jane’s life in the early 1800s. She may have met a young ...

Romney's insightful work delves into the lives and literary contributions of the female authors who profoundly influenced Jane Austen, including notable figures ... Importance by Sonia Purnell This ...

Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, and Millie Bobbie Brown have worn Jane Austen bags on the big screen; Taylor ...

In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

How much of Ms. Jane Austen's personal life, wishes and dreams was brought into her work? But what about her Irish lover?