An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: ...

Most readers of Austen’s fiction feel instinctively that her heroines could not properly be united with anyone other than the ...

Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the greatest acts of literary vandalism in history. These ...

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?

why Hawes's Cassandra Austen really burned so many of Jane Austen's letters. It's said that she did so to protect the propriety of her extended family, but at least in Miss Austen, there's more to ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually every part ... In some cases, they are writers we know Austen enjoyed, because she wrote about them in letters to her sister. In others, they are ...

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

Rise Of a Genius is the story of how a self-taught young woman from a small Hampshire village became one of the greatest novelists who ever lived ...

But of course PBS Masterpiece is going to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday ... Cassandra’s burning of her deceased sister’s letters. Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect ...

Edward Whitley will be at Brendon Books in Taunton on Wednesday, March 26 at 6.30pm to talk about his new book.