Finding a home — not a man — is the novel’s central theme, but Austen also rips into centuries-old ideas about blood, birth ...

Do you have a knack for reading your doctor’s illegible notes or making out the fine print on a weathered clothing tag? If so, you may be able to help out the Jane Austen’s House museum in Chawton, ...

An anthology celebrating the enduring influence of Jane Austen is being launched at a special event. Encounters with Jane Austen, edited by Cheryl Robson, will be launched at Chawton House on October ...

By the time she died at just 41, Jane Austen had penned six books that would revolutionize the English novel and created a ...

The television drama that revived Jane Austen’s popularity for a new generation three decades ago has been celebrated at Jane ...

In Jane Austen’s 1814 coming-of-age novel Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, a young woman who learns to navigate high society when she moves into the estate of her aunt and uncle, receives an amber cross ...

A Jane Austen museum said Monday it has received 100,000 pounds ($155,000) from an anonymous benefactor to help it buy the writer's ring back from singer Kelly Clarkson. Earlier this month, the ...

One of the English novelist's poems and a first edition of her book "Emma" are also up for grabs during an upcoming Sotheby's sale ...