Micro-portraits of women of a certain age – foggy, tired, rather bad-tempered, with diminishing bone density, putting on the ...

On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95). The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear ...

Above all, though, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a character study, light-hearted yet serious: the portrait of a woman coming to grips, on her own terms, with unresolved issues of grief and loss. And ...

Of course you should read the classics of the Western literary canon, but if you’re short on time or patience, these screen ...

Other cast members include John Standing as Mr Austen, Ben Illis as James Austen, Wendy Craig as Aunt Lefroy, Beth Winslet as ...

The show’s title, curator Dale Stinchcomb told Observer, is a nod to variations of a phrase that appears in several of Jane ...

She's joined by Downton Abbey's Phyllis Logan as Mrs Austen, The Morning Show star Jack Davenport as Henry Austen, Maigret's Lucy Cohu as Cassandra Austen, and Trying actor Oliver Chris as Tom Lefroy.

The museum upends various misconceptions about the novelist’s life by celebrating the anniversary of her birth through a ...

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

Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to ...