What was Jane Austen like as a child? What were her formative influences and experiences, her challenges and obstacles, that together set her on the path toward

How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with ot

This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student.

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around t

In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines Jane Austen’s acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as important in their own rig