Just three weeks after Jane Austen’s House launched its much-hyped group effort to transcribe the unpublished memoir of Austen’s older...

Ninety-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only about two years of Jane Austen’s childhood were spent...

Journalists like to joke that some stories are “too good to check”: so juicily entertaining that the last thing you want is to attempt...

Gather ‘round, children, and let me tell you about the olden days, when elders such as myself spent long hours, in school and out,...

Ninety-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Just when you think it’s safe to go back in the water. . ....

How badly off were women in Jane Austen’s England?   It’s a question I’ve been mulling lately, amid a spate of recent commentary asserting that—to quote a column published last month in a Massachusetts high school newspaper--“being a woman during this time period sucked.”   “If your father owned a house and you were his only daughter, you would not inherit that property when he died,” Ludlow High School junior Eva Lasky wrote, in a piece headlined “ What Jane Austen can tell

Ninety-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. A curious—and curiously contemporary--passage appears in the...

If you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...

Ninetieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen had six brothers, but one of them—George, the...

The world can be divided into two categories: People who leave their books unsullied, and people who mark them up. And if a prominent...

Last year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...

Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...