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Non-fiction, often dismissed as literature's poor cousin, got a leg up yesterday when novelist Carol Shields won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Jane Austen,her short biography of the English ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone with a Jane Austen fan in their life is seldom in want of a Christmas or birthday gift idea. A whole economy of fancy Austen fripperies exists now ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

The original handwritten manuscripts of Jane Austen, one of England’s most celebrated novelists of the Romantic era, will be available online to scholars and literary fans as of October 25, 2010. The ...

If you are familiar with the quiet little gems that are the novels of Barbara Pym, you may be surprised by the number and intensity of the writer’s love affairs—all doomed. Paula Byrne brings these ...

It is a truth not universally acknowledged that a novelist in possession of an impressive, centuries-old literary catalog must one day be the subject of a graphic novel. Yet for Janine Barchas, ...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 — 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the ...