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Jane Austen is among our all-time faves, and today, on her 250th birthday, we're celebrating with a press-spanning reading list. The books about Jane and myriad facets of her work, the journal articles that investigate and expand on her influence, and some...

Guest post by Janine Barchas In The Lost Books of Jane Austen, I champion the cheapest and least authoritative reprints of an important author, mixing hardcore bibliography with the tactics of the Antiques Roadshow. How I came to stray from scholarly libraries...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Great writers are great readers. And nothing dials up the magnification on a book like the green-eyed gaze of a fellow author. In 2014, many Jane Austen fans have been rereading what is arguably her darkest and most difficult novel...

Guest post by Janine Barchas Today marks the start of the annual gathering of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), hosted this year in Minneapolis. This particular meeting celebrates the bicentennial of Pride and Prejudice (first published in 1813...