We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female ... guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

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

by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: her letters and books. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” surveys the female writers she admired and whose novels laid the groundwork ...

The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this ... whose reputations were not fully eclipsed by Austen’s until late in the 19th century. American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers ...

Correction: Martin Williamson is incorrectly identified as being an actor associated with Jane Austen’s House ... "What the Austen?": You read her books and you can recognize people in your ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually every part of that sentence is wrong. Rebecca Romney, the author and occasional “Pawn Stars” guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her ...

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female ... guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to ...