Rise of a Genius' might not be wholly revelatory, but it’s a necessary addition to Austen’s 250th anniversary celebrations ...

One of the highlights of my year so far was talking to the brilliant Jane Austen biographer Paula Byrne at the Althorp ...

With this year’s clever BBC drama Miss Austen still fresh in our minds, millions of viewers are aware that Jane’s older sister Cassandra (played by Keeley Hawes in the show) burned most of her ...

Ella Bruccoleri (Call the Midwife, Bridgerton) will lead the cast as Mary Bennet in the ten-episode BritBox series The Other ...

A new suitor shows interest in Cassandra, but she may not feel quite the same. A new suitor shows interest in Cassandra, but she may not feel quite the same-- despite teasing from her siblings to ...

Amid claims of a rift between Victoria Beckham and son Brooklyn, it’s easy to imagine Austen’s wry take on events centuries after the author’s death - Victor Boyko/Getty Images ...

It’s still Jane Austen’s world we’re living in – just look at the Beckhams With her rich love of gossip, the author would surely enjoy scrutinising family dramas in the public domain if ...

(Siblings can have surprisingly different DNA ancestry. Here's why.) Birth order has also long determined inheritance rights and royal lines of succession, as in the British monarchy which has ...

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf — that is, the boy who was believed the first few ...