The Folio Society has a long history of publishing Jane Austen’s novels – some as sets, some as stand-alone editions of individual novels – I have them all and marvel at their variety, the differen…

A bookstore and a retired navy commander launch Operation Caged Bird — and no, it’s not a movie plot.

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Some of the commonly held beliefs of this time are downright shocking in the context of our modern understanding of the world.

This is a repost from 2008 ! Today is Jane Austen's birthday, 249 years ago!  To quote her father in his letter to Mrs. Walter on Dec 17, 1775: “You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners but so it was, for Cassey certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago: however last night the time came, and without a great deal of warning, everything was soon happily over.

The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel