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Non-fiction, often dismissed as literature's poor cousin, got a leg up yesterday when novelist Carol Shields won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Jane Austen,her short biography of the English ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 — 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the ...

A reader at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice," book experts, writers and fans read the entire novel in a 12-hour livestream. All of ...

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 ...