NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of a young girl that some believe is the only known painting of novelist Jane Austen failed to sell at auction on Thursday. Christie's said no one offered the owner's ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of a young girl that some believe is the only known painting of English novelist Jane Austen failed to sell at auction on Thursday. Christie's said no one offered the ...

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 ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 at the Morgan Library & Museum dives into the author’s world and her immense, ongoing legacy a quarter of a millennium after her birth. Autograph letter to Cassandra ...

One of the undisputed greats of English literature, the celebrated novels of Jane Austen, including Pride and Prejudice and Emma, have continued to resonate with new generations. The English writer’s ...

Jane Austen, one of the most celebrated English novelists, had a family that championed her passions and supported her work. Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum When I first read Northanger Abbey, ...