And yet, if Miss Austen shows us anything, it’s that these two women managed to live incredibly ... One assumes that Jane required little beyond that, because they were such a force together”.

As the world celebrates 250 years of Jane Austen, a small village in Hampshire is the heart of her enduring literacy legacy ...

The fact people are still reimagining Austen's work today is arguably testament to her solid plots… but is it patronising to ...

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen ...

A regency actor who works at the Jane Austen Centre adjusts a waxwork model of Jane ... and spent most of her life with very little money. 'Women taking power' "Pride and Prejudice", with its main ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.

Thanks to her sharp wit and strong female characters, Jane ... Austen’s books have endless sly wit and cynicism, also unusual for her time. She was one of the first women to deliver humour ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...