austen, jane

Artist Eliza Knight discovers two letters in an old vanity table, one from Jane Austen's fictional hero Fitzwilliam Darcy and the other from Jane to Darcy, and sets out to prove that Darcy was a real person.

A fictionalized memoir in which British novelist Jane Austen reflects on her relationship with Mr. Ashford, the son of a baronet, who encourages her to write and with whom she falls in love; and includes author's notes and comments, a chronology of Austen's life, and Jane Austen quotations.

A collection of quotations on topics including family, friends, money, marriage, and love by late eighteenth-century English author Jane Austen.

Examines the life, early writings, and six novels of eighteenth-century English author Jane Austen, arguing that the popular image of Austen as a prim, proper author who wrote simple "girlie books" is inaccurate.

Courtney Stone wakes up in the nineteenth-century, living the life of an upper-class Englishwoman, and must find a way to convince those around her she has not lost her mind and must return to twenty-first-century California.

The story of a self-assured young lady, Emma, who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

A collection of over 200 recipes that reflect the food culture and writings of late eighteenth-century novelist Jane Austen including fried beef steaks, broiled mutton chops, roast pork loin, and buttered crab or lobster.

Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by becoming attracted to two of the actors.

A selection of criticism devoted to Jane Austen's "Emma" arranged in chronological order of original publication.