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.

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

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?

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen ...

The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this year brings an ... American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers a lively, personal account of collecting works by, and about, eight of ...

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As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying other people’s curiosity. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew ...

Shortly after it begins, Rebecca Romney’s first solo work of nonfiction ... comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out ...