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Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire has resorted to crowdfunding prevent one of the author's letters being sold into private hands.

The letter in question was written by Jane Austen to her niece Anna on 29 November 1814 whilst visiting her brother Henry in London.

This year the museum celebrates the 70th anniversary of its...

Elizabeth Winkler, in the June 2019 issue of The Atlantic asks: Was Shakespeare a Woman? The answer is definitively: Yes.

Forget the worn-out Bacon theory, ditch the Marlowe hoax, abandon de Vere and Raleigh. And, most importantly, consider a sex-change for the world’s most influential, important and celebrated author: Shakespeare was a She....

The Bristol Book Fair returns to The Passenger Shed this summer for its fifth year.

Over 90 dealers from around the country gather in the city for two days to sell rare, antiquarian, and second-hand books, prints, maps and ephemera. The fair is a joint venture organised by the PBFA and the ABA, the two leading associations in the rare book...

A book fair can be a dizzying experience for the collector of modern firsts, particularly one as big and prestigious as the ABA summer fair, now called Firsts. It’s public, it’s private, it’s whatever you want to make of it but above all, it involves real people. In short it’s not ‘online’, which for many is probably the forum of which they have...