Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part ...

Despite her skills at writing about love and romance enduring for centuries, Jane remained unmarried until her untimely day ...

She loved poetry, and the poems she wrote rank among the best of ... Which experts should we challenge? On the one hand, ...

Dickens and Jane Austen. She wrote around 1,800 poems (though only 10 were published during her lifetime), which abound with lyricism, rhythmic vigour and rich imagery. They also make frequent ...

The Austens delighted in words: they wrote poems, put on private theatricals, and created word games for each other to solve. English novelist Jane Austen (1775 - 1817). (Photo by Hulton Archive ...

But Jane Austen’s 1814 novel is also a shrewd study of speculation ... to commemorate the drowning of the poet Edward King. As well as a great pastoral elegy, it is a denunciation of the ...