The likeness of Jane Bennet was so great that Austen wrote a letter home about the Pride and Prejudice lookalike.

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 ...

While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that ...

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 ...

Only one song is mentioned by name in Austen’s novels — the sad love song “Robin Adair,” which Jane Fairfax plays in “Emma” — ...