"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist. Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen ...