Not only did Jane stay in the town in 1805, when she was aged 29, but she also used what she experienced in Worthing to create her setting for her final, unfinished, novel. Originally titled The ...

Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th century heroines.

Jane Austen is widely regarded as the writer whose works defined “novels of manners” due to her treatment of ordinary people in their day-to-day lives. This year marks the 250th anniversary of her ...