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 ...
Jane Austen wrote just six novels in her short life. Yet, 250 years after her birth, her work continues to impact literature and pop culture around the world. Each of her novels — “Sense and ...
On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations rise, fall, go bust and sometimes rise again. These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a ...