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

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

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

This is when “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” becomes something of a detective novel. Romney, who prides herself on being the Sherlock Holmes of the rare-book-dealer set, headed out into the ...

“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the kind of warm romance that will make any bookish dreamer swoon, as this thoroughly modern woman with old-fashioned ideas about ... The film is as romantic about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Helen Fielding will be eternally grateful for the great novelist Jane Austen. “I stole her plot,” the Yorkshire-born writer ...

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 ...