Two months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...

Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...

Forty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s letters, with their unpolished emphasis on...

Six years ago, the singer Kelly Clarkson was forced to part with a charming little piece of jewelry she had just picked up at auction in...

Twenty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s books contain few young children, and those...

Eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. For those of us fascinated by Jane Austen’s novels, it’s a source...

Anna Austen Lefroy, the second-oldest of Jane Austen’s nieces, inherited the manuscript of Austen’s unfinished Sanditon and was the first...

Two weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite the Emporia Gazette's claims to the contrary, none of Jane Austen’s characters ever eats a...