Jane Austen died suddenly at age 41, but what actually killed her? Explore the four most compelling-and unsettling-theories ...

According to the members of the Jane Austen Society of North America, a multi-chapter fan club for the renowned 18th-century English novelist, their meetups are the kind where introductions are never ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: The Complete Novels by Jane Austen, The Folio Society. This year marks 250 years since ...

Jane Austen fans are hardly wilting wallflowers but instead an avid array of people who dress up in period costumes and talk passionately about favorite books and miscellany from their beloved author ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Imagine a giant slumber party lasting nearly a week, where people from all over the world talk about English author Jane Austen, while wearing hats, gloves and corsets. That unusual ...

Jane Austen ready to party for her 250th birthday at the Jane Austen Society of North America's Annual General Meeting in Baltimore. (Melissa Gray | NPR) In her six completed novels, Jane Austen ...

Fans of author Jane Austen say they can still relate to her work more than two centuries later.

English majors and Jane Austen fans came together for a night of seventeenth-century fun held by BYU’s English Society on Oct. 27. Fans and participants came together in Regency dresses, gloves and ...

Students mingle and enjoy refreshments. Men and women dressed up to represent the Jane Austen theme. (Ellie Haverlock) The BYU English Department and English Society celebrated Jane Austen Day in ...

As an avid reader of Jane Austen, one question I dread being asked is, “Do you like Fanny Price?” It’s a good question, as it gauges the answerer’s understanding of Austen’s ethics. Yet it requires me ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen's views on slavery remain unclear. Jim Dyson/Getty Images More than two centuries ...

Kindred Obas has always been drawn to big ideas; one of the most recent grew out of the Jane Austen book club she oversees at ...