The Town History Series, in its 22nd year, enters 2026 with a lecture on the personal relationships of Emma Eames, a prolific ...

Friends of the Bay County Public Libraries is hosting a Jane Austen-themed fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 1 at the Bay County Public ...

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Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years ...

Jane Austen ready to party for her 250th birthday at the Jane Austen Society of North America's Annual General Meeting in Baltimore. (Melissa Gray | NPR) In her six completed novels, Jane Austen ...

In 1811, Thomas Egerton, who primarily printed military texts, published a novel about two sisters and their widowed mother, “Sense and Sensibility.” It was written anonymously, “by a lady.” More than ...

Fans of English novelist Jane Austen rank among the most devoted viewers of Masterpiece, so series producers and some PBS stations are celebrating the 250th anniversary of her birth in ways that ...

For decades, people have paused outside of No. 8 College Street next to the campus of Winchester College in England. The only detail of the painted brick building’s façade that gives away its ...

Jane Austen wrote just six novels in her short life. Yet, 250 years after her birth, her work continues to impact literature and pop culture around the world. Each of her novels — “Sense and ...

Copies of “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen on the shelves at the Franklin branch of the Johnson County Public Library. The library is hosting Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday Festival at Church on ...

After a year of celebratory events—including exhibitions, film screenings, live performances, Regency balls, and more—the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth on December 16 draws near. To mark ...

In a letter dated February 4, 1813, Jane Austen told her sister that she believed her new novel, Pride and Prejudice, was “too light and bright and sparkling.” She added, “It wants shade; it wants to ...