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I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...
A New Musical of Pride and Prejudice. Where wit and romance meet, a writer finds her true voice. Learn more here!
Virginia Woolf.
Born Flora Jane Timms in 1876 into rural poverty in Oxfordshire, she was a bookish child who harboured a deep desire to write ...
The actor stars in "The Evening Hour," set in an Appalachian mining town, and recently filmed a new adaptation of Jane Austen ...
We can't think of anything better than listening to one of these books while taking a walk in the summer sunshine.
Joseph Mallord William Turner — often better known simply as J.M.W. Turner — is revered perhaps more than any other artist to ...
Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...
Between commentary on a holiday now past and pending legislation now passed, the political folks need to do some catching up.
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...
Steventon celebrates 250 years since Jane Austen was born in the village. Interview with historian Lucy Worsley. Visitors ...