While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such ...

An exhibit at the Morgan Library celebrates ‘a lively mind’ with items like a letter she wrote with every word spelled backward NEW YORK — It’s tempting to say that Jane Austen is having a moment. The ...

Jane Austen is one of the English language’s most beloved writers, and yet the details of her own life remain relatively unknown. As the story goes, and as the new PBS “Masterpiece” series “Miss ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, Which profiles the largely ...