A new exhibition at the author's home in Chawton, which has never previously displayed all six first-edition books together, ...

Jane Austen was received by her contemporaries as a new voice, but her late twentieth-century reputation as a nostalgic reactionary still lingers on. In this radical revision of her engagement with ...

In Jane Austen’s own century that actually would ... who knew Austen – she didn’t openly sympathise with radical contemporaries such as Mary Wollstonecraft, the British writer and advocate ...

After Shakespeare, Jane Austen is the most widely recognized ... But she had a devoted following among contemporary and later writers, such as Sir Walter Scott, William Dean Howells, and Katherine ...

Other series use Jane Austen's plots and characters as a jumping-off point for more contemporary retellings. Jane Austen wrote seven published novels in her short life, and they are so well ...

The Hampshire Regency Dancers will be appearing in full period costume and will take you through the steps of the dances performed by Jane Austen and her contemporaries. The event runs from 2.30pm ...

Because of oversights such as these, the whole story feels more like a jocular riff on Austen rather than a fully thought-through contemporary update of it. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life has the ...

Southampton is set to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth with a series of events. The Jane Austen 250 programme will be launched on November 15, with an exhibition at God's House Tower.

her contemporaries and her predecessors with an increased sensitivity to the connections between them, and a renewed pleasure in the complexity of the novels themselves." Michael Caines, Times ...