How might it change our image of the author? And what might the portrait reveal about Jane Austen and her world? Martha Kearney seeks answers as she follows Dr Byrne on her quest.

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 Cassandra (seen here colourised ...

In BBC drama Miss Austen, Jane's sister Cassandra is on a mission to destroy a cache of letters following the 41-year-old ...

This year marks the 250th birth anniversary of Jane Austen, one of the greatest English novelists of the late 18th and early ...

What does it do for us? As Claire Harman says in her book, Jane’s Fame, Austen has “conquered the world”. Perhaps because her portraits of the lives of women are so well-observed they always ...

A 5mm portrait of Jane Austen was put on the transparent part of the plastic Bank of England £5 notes A year has passed since four special £5 notes, engraved with a tiny 5mm portrait of author ...

The daughter of a clergyman, Austen anonymously published four novels in her lifetime with modest success, but she wrote seven in total and left another two unfinished when she died at the age of 41.

. Fanny Price-Mansfield Park: The author is best remembered for her bold, witty heroines like Lizzie Bennet, a rarity at the ...