An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: her letters and books. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” surveys the ...

The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this ... whose reputations were not fully eclipsed by Austen’s until late in the 19th century. American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers ...

Most readers of Austen’s fiction feel instinctively that her heroines could not properly be united with anyone other than the ...

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Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius is a 72 Films production for BBC Art and is distributed internationally by Fremantle. The Series Editor is Rosie Schellenberg, Drama Director Ali Naushahi, Production ...

The three-part series, Jane Austen: Rise Of A Genius, explores how her novels Pride And Prejudice, Sense And Sensibility and Emma broke barriers and influenced ... for use in her Bridget Jones’s Diary ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

In “Jane Austen ... Ms. Romney noticed, Austen alluded to a number of woman novelists she read and admired. Although Ms. Romney had been taught—and many rare-book catalogs repeated—the ...

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female ... guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen. But her point in the book, subtitled “A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to ...