Big anniversaries are coming up in 2026: 200 years since the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 250 since the signing ...

Julia Margaret Cameron, "The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty" (1866), albumen print (© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth—and it is ...

Dec. 16 marks the 250th birthday of the incomparable Jane Austen. While we can’t honor her with a grand ball at Pemberley or a slice of Bath bun birthday cake, we can celebrate the timeless gifts she ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death. Credit...Portrait by ...