Alum and faculty member Cynthia Hand (MFA, creative writing, 2003) is a New York Times bestselling author and an Eastern ...

Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why.

The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in ...

The respective stars of Sherlock and Slow Horses are stepping away from TV to play an addict and his mentor on stage ...

A new exhibition at the Jane Austen House in England includes six artworks that are going on public display for the first ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A casket which may have led to Mary, Queen of Scots being beheaded is to go on display in Stirling for the first time. Mary Stuart inherited ...

Queen Mary has two older sisters, Jane Alison Stephens, born in 1965, and Patricia Anne Bailey, born in 1968, and a younger brother, John, who was born in 1970. Jane shares three children with her ...

It is an object that is believed to have contained letters used to implicate Mary, Queen of Scots in the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley. Now a rare silver casket believed to have belonged to ...

A casket which may have led to Mary, Queen of Scots being beheaded is to go on display in Stirling for the first time. Mary Stuart inherited the throne at just six weeks old, but was forced to ...