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

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. In celebration, rare book company Type Punch Matrix will display the collection of books built by co-founder Rebecca Romney for her ...

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

If you’ve ever done that, you’ll probably appreciate Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society, and Literature, a collection of hundreds of quotes from Austen’s ...

On the day NPR visited Romney at the shop, the author glowed at the sight of her collection and the voices represented in it. Rebecca Romney's book, Jane Austen's Bookshelf, is displayed at Type Punch ...

In her new book, Rebecca Romney chronicles her path down a five-years-long rabbit hole to discover the many female writers that Jane Austen was influenced by, something scholars had outright ...

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 ...