LONDON (AP) — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more ...

During a celebration of novelist Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, held last week in Wilkes University’s Weckesser Hall, members of the Wilkes University dance team paired off to demonstrate the type of ...

In the works of Jane Austen, dance ignites powerful passion. This is an amazing thing given that, in Austen’s time, men wore wigs, and women corsets. Even as ribs groaned and beefy Englishmen pranced, ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

Partygoers ditched pop music and booze for a string quartet and tea cakes at a dance in Glen Ellyn, kicking off a week of parties around the author’s 250th birthday. It is a truth universally ...

The Wilkes University English Department cordially invites you to an academic panel and ball celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday. The event includes a plenary and panel, followed by a Regency-era ...