On the novelist's 250th birthday, a UVA English professor explains why Austen's vivid characters and universal themes ...

Most of us are familiar with the works of Regency author Jane Austen, whether we have read one of her six classic novels or ...

Her books like Pride and Prejudice and Emma were written hundreds of years ago, but have themes that still resonate in today's society.

The case of the Coughing Major seems to me to be the seed that planted the great artificial tree of True Grift, a genre that ...

Why Jane Austen’s acute understanding of marriage, hierarchy, and moral agency continues to find its most fluent readers in ...

Rare naval manuscripts linked to Jane Austen’s brothers are on public display at Greenwich to mark 250 years since her birth.

Tuesday marks 250 years since Jane Austen's birth, and despite much scrutiny, we're still in the dark about the novelist's ...

This year’s group included eight catechumens who were baptized, 26 Christians who made affirmations of faith, and a ...

Harings says Lizzie is her favorite Austen character. "She has such sharp, sarcastic wit and she's so self-confident, despite ...

The novels’ gentlemen are exemplars for modern men, according to Joseph Wurtz, dean of students at Benedictine College. He ...

That was the day I nearly disowned my one and only brother. Yes, the same man who once borrowed my first edition-worthy set of Austen paperbacks and returned them looking like they had survived ...