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?

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 ...

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

After Shakespeare, Jane Austen is the most widely recognized literary ... A realist, she is also ironic, funny, and wise. Her novels were not popular in her (short) lifetime.

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 ...

Sierra Stages’ launch of its wonderful production, “Sense & Sensibility,” takes an old chestnut and makes it new, compelling and funny, all while sticking to the original storyline of 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...