"Break out the bodices and bonnets," said The Times. Jane Austen fans will be "flocking" to the UK this year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the world-renowned English author's birth.

The four-part drama, Miss Austen, centres on the life of the renowned author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (played by Patsy Ferran), as seen through the eyes of her sister ...

This year, fans of the British romantic novelist Jane Austen are celebrating 250 years since her birth. In her homeland of England, residents are expecting a tourist boom. Special correspondent ...

The mini-series looks at various aspects of the Austen sisters' lives and loves. Some audiences members, who have tuned in to the BBC and PBS Masterpiece series, are eager to discover if Jane ...

The 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English writer published novels like “Pride and Prejudice” and "Emma" during the Regency era ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.

Anybody who has had the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of two facts: First, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there ...

The National Portrait Gallery attributed this unfinished portrait to Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra, and dated it to circa 1810. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

The four-part drama, Miss Austen, delves into the life of the renowned author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (played by Patsy Ferran), as seen through the eyes of her sister ...

Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) discovers that Jane’s letters – in all their acerbic, revelatory glory – are about to fall ...

Keeley Hawes leads Miss Austen, BBC's newest drama which tells the life story of Jane Austen's sister Cassandra and their familial relationship. The series is based on Gill Hornby's novel of the same ...