HAVE you got any classic books from your childhood that are collecting dust in your attic? Then you could be sitting on ...

Flanked by Pansy and Rose, Olive emerged from the classroom, and when she saw Bertie talking to Ranald, she stepped forward ...

But researchers at the University of Toronto recently concluded that, well, “spinsters” aren’t the most miserable creatures on the planet. In fact, they found that single women are substantially ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

For centuries, women writers have challenged norms, reshaped narratives and transformed literature with their powerful voices ...

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.

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

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 ...

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 ...