A New Exhibition Explores Jane Austen’s Life & Legacy Through Her Personal Letters

A New Exhibition Explores Jane Austen’s Life & Legacy Through Her Personal Letters

Miniature portrait of Jane Austen, 19th century. Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum. In the year 2025, hearing the name Jane Austen might conjure images of Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Alicia Silverstone as a modernized Emma in Clueless, or the hours you likely spent in high school English analyzing the sisters of Sense and Sensibility. But Austen is more than a teenage literature standard or an IP treasure tr…

A New Exhibition Takes Us Inside Jane Austen's Mind

The Morgan Library pays tribute to one of the world’s most beloved authors.

A New Jane Austen Exhibit Showcases Rare Letters Between the Author and Her Confidant

The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so fascinated by Jane Austen 250 years after her birth.

On the trail of Jane Austen - The Bath Magazine

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and Bath is gearing up to celebrate. While it’s no secret that the iconic writer had a certain disdain for the city in her few years living here, Andrew Swift trails her movements and discovers the paths she crossed…James Joyce once said that if Dublin suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed out of Ulysses. For some, Jane Austen’s two Bath novels – Northanger Ab…