At last great-aunt Jane Austen gets the award she deserves. Her family couldn't be more thrilled.

Caroline Jane Knight discusses Jane Austen's 'Great House' (Caroline's childhood home) as a campaign is launched to 'reimagine and enhance the manor house in Chawton as it was familiar to Jane Austen in her own village'.

Was Mr Knightley so named as a tribute to the Knight family that changed the fortunes of the Austens by adopting Jane's brother Edward?

Jane Austen enjoyed access to the Knight family library, inherited by her brother Edward. Which were Jane's favourite bookplates?

Do we ever know the real person behind the image?  Do we really know Jane Austen? I recently met a 'Real Housewife' and was pleasantly surprised!

That libraries influenced Jane’s writing is indisputable. Guest writer, Emily Prince, discusses libraries and the challenge of accessing books in Jane's time.

The words that inspired the start of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation