To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City features ...

Simon also argues that Henry Austen, Jane's brother and literary executor, did not provide the portrait for the 1832 edition of the novels. And Simon's trump card is "dry and dusty art history ...

Henry Rice, a retired farmer from Kent and descendant of Jane Austen's brother, Edward, has offered the portrait to the gallery and been turned down, the Daily Telegraph reported. He said that the ...

Autograph letter to Cassandra Austen, Godmersham, June 20–22, 1808.

Neither of the Austen sisters ever married and they spent long stretches living together, in some cases with one of their brothers and his family. After Jane died in 1817, aged 41, Cassandra ...

Mary Austen (Jessica Hynes), the haughty widow of Cassandra’s brother James, is bustling around with notions of commissioning a joint biography of Jane and her late husband—whose ...

The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...

Indeed, Hornby wrote Miss Austen at least partly with the intention of explaining her actions. Getty Images This pencil and watercolour portrait of Jane by ... by her brother Henry in December ...

Novelist Jane Austen has been given a makeover for the cover of a book about her life after publishers decided an original image of her was unattractive. "She was not much of a looker," said Helen ...

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 ...

Museum curator Sophie Reynolds said: "It's thrilling to show Tom Lefroy's portrait alongside the very letter in which Jane Austen tells ... from their brother Henry's house in Henrietta Street ...