here are some of the facts we learned about the author’s life and works. Jane’s father, the Reverend George Austen, influenced her passion for literature, allowing her access to his extensive ...

Jane Austen enthusiasts are being asked to help transcribe a handwritten manuscript biography of her brother Francis. The unpublished text details the life, travels and naval career of Admiral Sir ...

Most interesting biography The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne Rather than a simple timeline, this book tells the story of Austen's life by pegging each chapter on objects ...

Jane Austen is thought to have shared family traits of a long nose and sparkly brown eyes A life-size statue of Jane Austen will be installed in Bath, where the author lived with her parents at ...

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s second novel. (HT Photo) Jane Austen died at 41. In her brief life, she wrote only about what she knew most intimately—the lives of women and men of rural ...

Sitting at her table with her quill and inkpot spinning out yarns about the horrors of uninvited guests, it is unlikely that Jane ... own life, perhaps), we are still living in the world Austen ...