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At that time, we had the wonderful art bookbenches all around the borough. Again, in 2025, we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of her birth ...
Autograph letter to Cassandra Austen, Godmersham, June 20–22, 1808.
The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...
From former presidents to sporting legends, the most sought-after squiggles sell for incredible amounts, particularly if they're attached to a historically important document or piece of memorabilia.
What are England’s greatest literary stars, Shakespeare and Jane Austen among them, doing in Surfers Paradise?
What are England’s greatest literary stars, Shakespeare and Jane Austen among them, doing in Surfers Paradise?
These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a ...
Guiding the first tour of its kind in the house, Adam Rattray, head of history of art at ... place. Cassandra, who was played by Keeley Hawes in the recent BBC period drama Miss Austen, wrote ...
That recently aired “Masterpiece Theatre” series centered on Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra ... toward literature or music or any other art form. Instead, she says — presumably speaking ...
You mentioned that she’s an artist. I almost wanted to bring it up earlier, because I have this beautiful folio book of Jane Austen’s History of England and it’s illustrated by Cassandra.
In the show, Cassandra reads many of these letters ... of England’s most celebrated authors. Portrait of Jane Austen, year and artist unknown. Historians rely on Jane Austen’s correspondence ...
Historians rely on Jane Austen’s correspondence as ... In one letter from January 1801, Jane wrote to Cassandra, “I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always ...