Jane Austen’s favorite writers finally get their due. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous novelist.

Austen’s Influences: In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” by Rebecca Romney, a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

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 ...

Rebecca Romney, rare book dealer and author of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, will visit Kelvin Smith Library for a special event ...

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney: ... The 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth this year brings an overdue opportunity for a general audience to discover the female writers who ...

"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 ...

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney holds The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, published in 1794. The novel is among the archives that inspired Jane Austen's Bookshelf, Romney's new book on ...

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf. By Rebecca Romney. Marysue Rucci Books; 464 pages; $29.99. Ithaka Press; £25. L egions of “Janeites” will spend 2025—the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s ...

In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, Which profiles the ...

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 ...