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In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers. By Sadie Stein Sadie Stein is an editor at the Book Review.

A fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, Miss Austen is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Miss Austen takes a literary mystery – Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

Jessica Bull, a 46 year old mum-of-two, is a self-proclaimed Janeite, utterly enamored with the life and works of Jane Austen. Her fixation began with the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and ...