In Jane Austen’s own century that actually would have been considered pretty abhorrent.” Significantly, Austen’s books have endless sly wit and cynicism, also unusual for her time.

Jane Austen only lived until the age of 41, but released four of her six major novels in the space of four years The death 200 years ago of celebrated author Jane Austen is being marked nationwide ...

The daughter of a clergyman, Austen anonymously published four novels in her lifetime with modest success, but she wrote seven in total and left another two unfinished when she died at the age of 41.

Can reading Jane Austen give us ... We assume that Austen must be suffering from the same delusions. Recent film and fictional adaptations of her novels haven’t helped: “the ghosts of ...