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In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

This San Diego publisher of classic titles uses data and trendspotting to catch readers attention. Here’s how it is marking Jane Austen’s 250th birthday.

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually ... But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend,” is that ...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf is on bookshelves now ... What happened to me is I'm a professional in rare books, and so I sell first editions of important English novels. I sell Robinson Crusoe by ...

By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s favorite authors. Suddenly it occurs to Romney that perhaps her ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however ... Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the claim that Austen was “the first great woman writer in English ...