Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one...

The reception history of Jane Austen shows how Austen's works, at first having modest fame, became wildly popular. Her books are both the subject of great...

Cassandra Elizabeth Austen (9 January 1773 – 22 March 1845) was the older sister of Jane Austen. She was Jane's best friend and a beauty. Her fiancé died;...

The word Janeite has been used by people who love the works of Jane Austen. However, it can also be used to show disapproval. Claudia Johnson says that...

on a fictional biography written by Jon Spence. Anne Hathaway played Jane Austen. James McAvoy played Thomas Lefroy. This movie won the 2007 People's...

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last finished novel. Persuasion is the story of a second chance of lost love. Anne Elliot is the second daughter of Sir Walter...

novel written by Jane Austen. It is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels. Even though Northanger Abbey the first of Austen's novels completed...

Mansfield Park is the third novel by iconic English author Jane Austen. Published in 1814, it was the most successful during her lifetime. Mansfield Park...

Emma is a book by Jane Austen. It was first published in the year 1815. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a "heroine whom no one but myself...

important man in the story by Jane Austen called Northanger Abbey. Henry is said to be the nicest of all Jane Austen's church men (pastors). He is a good...

Pride and Prejudice is a book by Jane Austen. It was published in 1813. It was made into a movie in 1940 and again in 2005. There were two BBC television...

United States Jane Anger (16th century), English author Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist, known for Emma and Pride and Prejudice Jane Gomeldon (1720...

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen. It was her first novel, and was published in 1811. The novel is mostly about two sisters, Elinor and...

adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, a novel published by English author Jane Austen in 1811. The movie starred Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and...

Lady Susan is an early epistolary novel (novel in letters) by Jane Austen. It tells the story of an unscrupulous coquette (flirtatious woman) widow who...

Middlemarch by George Eliot, a show based on Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, a show based on William Makepeace Thackeray’s book Vanity Fair and a...

Catherine Morland is the principal character in Jane Austen's book Northanger Abbey. She enjoys reading the mysterious and frightening gothic novels that...

roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)...

Robert Z. Leonard and was based on the 1813 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. It stars Greer Garson, Laurence Oliver, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver...

maritime history, memorabilia, and writers associated with the town such as Jane Austen and John Fowles. An example of Coade artificial stonework, in the form...