A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister ...

Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

In her biography of Jane Austen, Claire Tomalin notes a mention in one of Jane's letters of ‘talking with my fingers’, which suggests she learnt deaf and dumb sign language, presumably to communicate ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.