Jane Austen turns 250 this year, and England is rolling out the Regency red carpet to celebrate. So, if your 2025 travel plans include Britain – Bath, in particular – you might encounter ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Since 2010 Canterbury Classics has sold around 850,000 copies of Jane Austen’s books and more than 10 million copies of the Canterbury Leather and Word Cloud Classics editions. Jane Austen’s ...

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 ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...

“At the time, I was 17 and studying for my A-levels – so I asked my English teacher about Jane Austen and he sent me to the library to borrow her books. “Since then, as well as reading all ...