A new exhibition at the author's home in Chawton, which has never previously displayed all six first-edition books together, ...

When Kingsley Amis described P D James as ‘Iris Murdoch with murder’ she was almost certainly greatly flattered by the ...

At the recently inaugurated Mathilukal Basheer Museum, rare manuscripts that the legendary writer wished to be consigned to the flames now illuminate his legacy For those who find sanctuary between ...

The unfinished manuscript was littered with elaborate ... and keen social observations to those of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. Readers devoured the novel, which went on to sell more than ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...

Which of these books would be considered valuable by collectors? What is the great fascination with what to some may appear to be solely old ...

Original price: $1.69 million Year sold: 2011 This novel by Jane Austen was begun around 1803 and never finished ... The 186-page long atlas contains both printed and manuscript maps, as well as some ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Chawton House, with its extensive gardens and parkland, once belonged to Jane Austen’s brother Edward Knight ... and she had assembled a valuable collection of rare early editions and manuscripts.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has inked French writer-director Laura Piani for representation following her debut feature, Jane Austen ...

Find out all the latest details on Miss Austen, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Gill Hornby, coming to MASTERPIECE ...