The ghostly figure at cryptocurrency’s origin, the destructive air war on Japan, Cynthia Ozick’s retrospective collection and ...

Do you know any amazing women? March is the time to celebrate them – and many others you may not have heard of. Since 1987, ...

As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying other people’s curiosity. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, ...

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?

An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: ...

Rebecca Ballhaus is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal's investigations team, based in New York. Her work focuses on politics and government and includes investigations into conflicts of ...

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