This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of famous author Jane Austen. You might recognise her name from studying ...

After Shakespeare, Jane Austen is the most widely recognized literary figure today, and in the past thirty years, there has been a seemingly endless stream of TV adaptations, films, books ...

But 200 years later, everyone knows Jane Austen. She’s not just ... It is, of course, the book from which Austen’s most famous line comes: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that ...

While Austen’s books parody the world that she lived in ... they force one into constant exertion” - 1801 letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra Needlework, drawing and dancing ...

Austenites, assemble! Three counties in southwest England are hosting can’t-miss celebrations for Jane Austen’s 250th ...

The novels by Jane Austen ... £181,000 at auction. The books went under the hammer at Dominic Winter Auctions in Cirencester, with Pride and Prejudice the most popular, selling for £92,000.

Her books have sold millions of copies all ... Cathedral - where Jane Austen is buried - by September 2025. Jane Austen is a famous English writer who was born in 1775 in Steventon, in Hampshire ...

Sigh. A piece of history of which we are actually allowed to be proud. As the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen ...