Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s Real-Life Mr. Darcy?

Was a young clergyman the real-life inspiration for Jane Austen’s romantic hero?

Tweet, Tweet! Jane Austen in a Sentence

Stubborn woman meets proud rich man, hates him, loves him, they finally get married. The Jane Austen Today blog posted a really fun exercise last week: Sum up a Jane Austen novel in a Tweet. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, a Tweet is a sentence or two that you post to Twitter to [...]

The Austen vs. Bronte Smackdown

Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters had radically different styles, but shared a love of strong female characters.