Jane Austen was born 250 years ago today, making her a few months older than American independence, 14 years older than the French Revolution, and 25 years older than the electric battery. Like many ...

A group of ladies and a few gentlemen in Regency-era formalwear stand in two lines facing each other. They perform bows and curtsies before engaging in a precise choreography. The hushed noise of ...

Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years ...