When she was ten, Catherine Morland showed none of the qualities needed to impress the ladies who read romantic fiction.

James Edward Austen-Leigh tells us what it was that made his aunt, the celebrated novelist Jane Austen, so remarkable.

From the very first lines, Jane Austen’s classic novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ pokes affectionate fun at Georgian England.

Henry Tilney teases a bewildered Catherine Morland for her lazy vocabulary.

Emma tries to reconcile her father to the unaccountable tastes of his nearest and dearest.

Louisa Musgrove thought she had hit on a sure method of winning Captain Wentworth’s affections.