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The country fair is being held in the field where Jane Austen's home, Steventon Rectory, once stood. It was demolished in ...
"If anyone saw the drama Miss Austen they will know three of her closest friends from childhood were the Lloyds sisters - ...
This year, England will be alive with festivals, exhibitions and parties marking the beloved author's 250th birthday ...
THEY are the Regency ‘greats’ - writer Jane Austen and JMW Turner - and this year is the 250th anniversary of their birth.
The grounds of Chawton House were filled with joy and nostalgia as Caroline Jane Knight, Jane Austen’s fifth great-niece, ...
Mansfield Park” continues to complicate the writer’s legacy 250 years after her birth. Lauren Groff explains how the novel’s dark themes and complex ironies help keep Austen weird.
Jane Austen’s 250th birthday was celebrated in style by the events of the 16th Jane Austen Regency Week held in Alton, ...
As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...
A few years ago, while trying to muddle through various ideas I had for a reworking of an Austen novel, I was lucky enough to find myself a few miles from the Jane Austen’s House museum in ...
Jane Austen’s gold and turquoise ring, on loan from Austen’s house in Hampshire, England. Janice Chung for The New York Times ...
The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so fascinated by Jane Austen 250 years after her birth.