Jane Austen’s Life
What Killed Jane Austen?
Like everything else about Jane Austen, her death continues to fascinate us. Literary scholars and Janeites still wonder about the illness that plagued the author for more than a year before she died at the age of 41 in July, 1817. It was during this time that she finished Persuasion, the saddest and most pensive [...]
Jane Austen’s Real-Life Mr. Darcy?
Was a young clergyman the real-life inspiration for Jane Austen’s romantic hero?
