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

EXCLUSIVE: It’s no secret that Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding is a fan of the work of Jane Austen. We’ve got an exclusive clip from the BBC’s upcoming Jane Austen docu-drama Jane Austen: Rise of ...

Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding says that the voice of Jane Austen is “so strong and funny and perceptive” that authors have continued to copy and steal it for their own work. She is among famous ...

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Rise Of a Genius is the story of how a self-taught young woman from a small Hampshire village became one of the greatest novelists who ever lived ...

JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE follows Agathe (Rutherford) a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the ...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s phenomenally successful ... My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Funny, clever, charming and unafraid to speak ...

Who would have thought that quotes from her six novels and pages of writings would adorn T-shirts and badges in the 21st ...

Jane Austen's six novels only earned her the grand ... So even then she was well enough to carry on writing. And it's a very funny poem. MALCOLM BRABANT: Despite being impoverished and relatively ...

“Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that virtually ... I kept laughing aloud at her genuinely funny jokes.” Romney doesn’t over-praise. She admits that a few of these 18th-century writers ...

This year, Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since ... So even then she was well enough to carry on writing. And it's a very funny poem. Despite being impoverished and relatively obscure ...