The cake Austen refers to in her letter is unlikely ... He invented Pandemonium as the name for the capital of Hell in his 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost. Milton is credited with creating 630 ...

Jane Austen is famous for writing just six novels, and the first four were published without her name, so hardly anyone knew who she was at the time. She didn't get much recognition during her ...

Miss Austen is based on the book of the same name by Gill Hornby, in which the author addresses the real-life literary mystery of why Cassandra Austen burnt so many of her sister’s letters ...

She had been told the story by Cassandra and, though she could not remember the young man’s name, she knew he died shortly after Jane’s encounter with him. Miss Austen picks up on the ...

Jane Austen is one of the world’s best-loved novelists. This year is the 200th anniversary of her death and to mark the occasion events are being held across the county of Hampshire in southern ...

But of course PBS Masterpiece is going to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. As a treat for all the Austen stans out there, the premier period piece destination is exploring the author’s ...