I WAS a fan of Jane Austen long before Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice. I’d read all her novels and fancied finding a Mr Darcy of my own — the bigger his stately ...

On a bitterly cold December day some 249 years ago, the sixth child of a modest country priest was born in the family ...

Donned in bodices, bonnets, and breeches, thousands of visitors from around the world are expected to descend on East ...

Jane Austen fans are set to descend on Britain to celebrate the birth of the Pride and Prejudice writer 250 years on. Austen's literary works have attracted tourists by the tens of thousands to ...

Sitting at her table with her quill and inkpot spinning out yarns about the horrors of uninvited guests, it is unlikely that ...

A year-long programme of events has been planned to celebrate the life and works of Jane Austen. The programme, which will be ...

FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at Jane Austen Day. December 16 is Jane Austen's birthday, a day dedicated to celebrating her life and achievements, and to telling as many ...

The highlight on the schedule are two six-day programmes – one in spring and one in autumn – based at the elegant five-star Gainsborough, delving into every corner of Jane Austen’s life in Bath.

Today, two hundred and forty-nine years after her birth, the British novelist Jane Austen is more popular now than she was in her time, as evidenced by the countless theatre, television ...

"Everybody, right hands with your partner, we balance in and out and turn under," she instructs as she guides the cast of "Jane Austen's Christmas Cracker" through the complex steps of the Regency ...