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 ...

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

The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep.

A first edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ‘Peacock ... In 2008, Andrew Chapman, a long-serving rare books specialist at Oxfam's bookshop in St Giles, found a scruffy copy of ...

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 ...

Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare & Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ Left ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It's not that old. Merely the first fan subculture ... There are even grounds for concern that some Jane Austen fans have never read the books. But if the films are a gateway drug, Yaffe is ...

Before you can say, “Hey, why doesn’t she hook up with Felix?” Agathe finds herself at a Jane Austen writers retreat in England (Felix submitted her application) — and is immediately staring into the ...