Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

Why did Cassandra burn so many of Jane’s letters, and what might have been lost? The destruction ... s most celebrated authors. Portrait of Jane Austen, year and artist unknown.

When Jane Austen died on July 18 ... I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself,” Cassandra wrote in a letter later that month. Years later, Cassandra ...

Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to attend a writing residency named after ...

Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen ... did Cassandra burn so many of Jane’s letters, and what might have been lost? The destruction has left ...

In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...

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 ... as if I have lost a part of ...

Jane Austen was a very funny writer, but she was also a woman who knew the pain of a broken heart. Persuasion is her ode to the broken-hearted. In it, she explores the lingering ache of love lost ...

Novelist Jane Austen has been given a makeover for the cover of a book about her life after publishers decided an original image of her was unattractive. "She was not much of a looker," said Helen ...

Cassandra Austen's 1795 hand-drawn copy of a plate ... Cassandra’s best-known work is a portrait of Jane that now resides in the National Portrait Gallery in London. “Her skill was akin ...