In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...

1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara Dabhoiwala... Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting' and ...

She's Jane Austen, born in 1775, in Steventon, a village in Hampshire. Jane Austen is famous for writing just six novels, and the first four were published without her name, so hardly anyone knew ...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf is on bookshelves now ... by the women that she was reading who influenced her novels, who were writing in the same vein. And so what I realized was Austen has great ...

But 200 years later, everyone knows Jane Austen. She’s not just a writer ... appeared in 1811 (almost 20 years after she had started writing it) that she was finally a published author.

In addition to this event, the Special Collections department of Kelvin Smith Library has an exhibition entitled Jane Austen's Library, featuring 18th and 19th century books which inspired her writing ...