Jane Austen fans, or Janeites, are as rabid as Parrotheads, Deadheads, and Harry Potter fans whose email addresses end in "-patronus." Read more here.
Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated writers in English. Though people wrote novels before her, she distilled the form into art, and she defends the novel as an art form in several of her novels, usually with a wicked sense of humor, in a manner that can only be considered more post-modern than Regency or Victorian era writing.
More about Jane Austen and her writing can be found here.
More about current Jane Austen culture, including fan fiction, forums, the Regency era, and Janeite information, can be found here (Austen.com) and here (The Republic of Pemberly).
More about Jane Austen’s experience in the town of Bath can be found here at the town of Bath's official Jane Austen website.
If you like Jane Austen’s characters, try reading this article about how to write unforgettable characters.
An article about Victorian novels can be found here.
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