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1. Long before Jane Austen became a global phenomenon, Elizabeth Jenkins wrote the first literary biography of the novelist. Born in 1905, Jenkins inhabited a traditional unsentimental culture Austen ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

Non-fiction, often dismissed as literature's poor cousin, got a leg up yesterday when novelist Carol Shields won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Jane Austen,her short biography of the English ...

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 ...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 — 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the ...

It is a truth not universally acknowledged that a novelist in possession of an impressive, centuries-old literary catalog must one day be the subject of a graphic novel. Yet for Janine Barchas, ...

A reader at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice," book experts, writers and fans read the entire novel in a 12-hour livestream. All of ...