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A New Jane Austen Portrait by Melissa Dring

Here's a new Jane Austen portrait so many years after her death. So what did the author really look like? Forensic artist Melissa Dring takes up a commission by David Baldock to use contemporary e...

Adrian Lukis (Wickham) to appear at Jane Austen Festival

  Amongst the 60 or so events crammed into this year’s annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will be the special appearance by actor Adrian Lukis (George Wickham in the BBC 1995 adaptation of P&P...