Miss Austen’s Jane is played by Patsy Ferran as witty, acerbic and, crucially, devoted to fiction. She is utterly determined to become a published author and her family support her in this pursuit.

Ballgowns are being stitched, bonnets brushed and tea rooms prepped as the United Kingdom prepares to celebrate the 250th ...

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 ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice begins with one of the most famous—and ironically misunderstood—opening lines in English ...

Posthumous publication – the publishing of creative work after the death of its creator – is not a new phenomenon. Samuel ...

High Peak is home to semi-precious Blue John stone, Mam Tor and Buxton opera house – and also, curling its way through the hills like a ripped silk pelerine and proving just as damaging to the bank ...

Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Irish Writers Centre events; ACIS award for Arlen House; Cló Iar-Chonnacht and Cúirt ...

The gleaner’s essay – with its indefinite and definite future which goes against the grain of the popular routine, run of the mill essay ...

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“A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and modern languages, to deserve the world; and ...

BOOKOFF is the kind of place where you can easily lose track of time. You might walk in thinking you’ll just browse for a few ...