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Jane Austen

A painting of Jane Austen, who has short curly hair, blue eyes and is wearing a pink ruffled headband

Jane Austen exhibition highlights district links

A historian finds connections between Jane Austen and The Vale of White Horse.

A close-up of the statue, which is a bronze bust of Jane Austen attached to a pile of books. The Regency-style garden can be seen behind it.

Town gives Jane Austen sculpture 'pride of place'

The bronze artwork was unveiled during a ceremony in Alton's Regency Garden.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight

Actor portraying Jane Austen is sat at a table flicking through a book.

The publishing dilemma Jane Austen faced

A man in a high-vis jacket puts the finishing touches to a grey plaque honouring Jane Austen onto an old stone wall.

Jane Austen plaque installed at former school

The plaque is installed at the Reading Abbey Gateway to mark 250 years since the author's birth.

The front of number eight College Street in Winchester

Jane Austen home opens to public for first time

A woman playing Jane Austen sits at a table looking at the camera.

The home where Jane Austen got her mojo back

The outside of a white brick building with three stories in a city street

Jane Austen home opens to public for first time

The house in College Street Winchester is where the writer spent her final days.

Hampshire & Isle of Wight

Sophie Andrews stands outside in her regency outfit and looks at the camera, smiling. She has dark brown curly hair, with two strands of ringlets framing her face and the rest of her hair in an up-do underneath a straw bonnet which has a pale blue ribbon rim and blue feathers sticking out the top. Sophie holds a parasol made of white lace. She is wearing a brown stone necklace with a turquoise blue dress, which has three quarter length sleeves and a brown ribbon sash around her waist. The background is blurred but shows trees and hedging surrounding a pale beige cobbled area of road.

Jane Austen fan says she's still 'obsessed' 11 years on

Sophie Andrews became known for her love of Austen in the BBC One documentary My Friend Jane.

An actress playing Jane Austen. They are in a room lit by candle light and reading from a piece of paper.

How Jane Austen's father's supported the author