CHAWTON, England — By the time she died at just 41, Jane Austen had penned six books that would revolutionize the English novel and created a cultural phenomenon that lasts to this day. Her most ...
Jane Austen fans around the world have been celebrating the 250th Anniversary of her birth with a wide variety of festivals, conferences, conventions, and other activities. Her novels and her life ...
Why do I reread Jane Austen’s novels? I appreciate how the heroines exhibit grace and virtue during life’s joys and trials. These timeless tales are perfectly paired with a batch of scones and a good ...
In her six completed novels, Jane Austen excelled at love stories: Elinor and Edward, Lizzie and Darcy, Fanny and Edmund, Emma and Knightley, Anne and Wentworth, heck even Catherine and Tilney. As her ...