Jane Austen: Rise of Genius is streaming on the BBC iPlayer now and offers an immersive look at the best-selling writer's ...

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

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

Jane Austen fans hardly needed more encouragement, but for the author’s 250th anniversary, the perennial Regency love-in has gone into overdrive. In other words, we are not short on Austen ...

We were told the house had an Austen connection—not through Jane so much as through Cassandra, who was engaged to the son of the vicar who lived here. Cassandra was visiting when her fiancé Tom ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, famous siblings in history have redefined the ... and Edward was the son of Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour. Edward VI ascended the throne at age 9, following Henry’s ...