"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth—and it is being celebrated with new books, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Austen's letter to Cassandra is expected to sell for up to $400,000. - Sotheby's While Jane Austen is best known for ...

A 19th-century miniature portrait of Jane Austen by an anonymous artist The Morgan Library and Museum On Jane Austen’s tombstone in Winchester Cathedral in England, no mention is made of her ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra.

Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama, and director Aisling Walsh chime in on the debate along with writer Andrea Gibb who calls the show “a feminist piece.” By Georg Szalai ...

Austen wrote the letter to her older sister on April 11, 1805, from Bath. Sotheby's Jane Austen’s closest confidante was her older sister, Cassandra. The two women—who were almost three years ...

Three rare Jane Austen-related treasures are hitting the auction block this October as part of a special sale dedicated to creative women from across history, courtesy of Sotheby’s New York. The ...

On Jane Austen’s tombstone in Winchester Cathedral in England, no mention is made of her achievements as a novelist. Instead, the epitaph written by her brother James celebrates how “the benevolence ...

(CNN) — While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too ...