To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

Students in Professor Carolyn Dever’s first-year seminar class put together an exhibit honoring author Jane Austen’s works on ...

Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...

Inspired by the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ author, an eight-day trek through the English countryside from Oxford to Bath wasn’t ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor, such a task was irresistible. Her lack of familiarity with the current state of the graphic genre ...

“I prefer walking,” declares Anne Elliot, the heroine of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, my husband and I decided to channel her ...

Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were ...

On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Janeites still lament the loss of her unpublished words. Of the thousands of rumoured letters to Austen’s friends and family once in existence ...

Most readers are familiar with the Brontë sisters. But how many are familiar with the Austen sisters? There’s Jane, of course, but may we introduce you to her sister, Cassandra? Masterpiece PBS ...

Lawyers love Jane Austen, disproportionately—often rabidly—so. A leading London jurist once memorably quipped of his devotion: “I read all six of Austen’s books every year, because if I didn’t, I ...