Jane Austen fans are set to descend on Britain to celebrate the birth of the Pride and Prejudice writer 250 years on. Austen's literary works have attracted tourists by the tens of thousands to ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

Jane Austen fans are set to descend on Britain to celebrate the birth of the Pride and Prejudice writer 250 years on. Austen's literary works has attracted tourists by the tens of thousands to the ...

With bonnets and boarding passes ready, a brigade of Jane Austen fans from around the world is preparing to bombard Britain, eager to celebrate one of English literature's greatest writers ...

One Yorkshire academic is set to give a major lecture at the National Portrait Gallery about Jane Austen’s use of portraits in her novels to mark the anniversary. Professor Joe Bray, of the ...

The portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra is much loved even though we cannot see her face, only her clothes. How do we read the costumes and social symbols in paintings from 18th century ...

I WAS a fan of Jane Austen long before Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice. I’d read all her novels and fancied finding a Mr Darcy of my own — the bigger his ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best Austen-themed festivals, reenactments and balls of the year. With ...

A new exhibition will launch celebrations for Jane Austen's 250th birthday year later this month. Jane Austen's House in Chawton, where the author spent the last eight years of her life, will start ...

Northanger Abbey was among the last of Jane Austen’s novels to be published, but one of, if not the very first, to be written. The book chronicles a summer in the life of young Catherine Morland ...

And now a petition has been launched to protect Jane Austen’s ‘literary landscape’ amid the threat of hundreds of new homes. Literary enthusiasts living in the market town where the 18th ...