As a bookseller, Rebecca Romney usually makes a profit from satisfying other people’s curiosity. In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew ...

Rebecca Romney: Thanks so much for having me. Dana Taylor: I want to start with your essential motivation for the book. Why should people today care about what Jane Austen was reading all the way ...

Review: Jane Austen fans, get ready to be turned on to books she loved 'Jane Austen's Bookshelf' presents women writers who influenced her — and the tale of how Rebecca Romney found them.

‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ presents women whose writing Austen admired — and how modern author Rebecca Romney found them.

American rare books dealer Rebecca Romney offers a lively, personal account of collecting works by, and about, eight of Austen’s favourite women authors, all identifiable from mentions in her ...

Shortly after it begins, Rebecca Romney’s first solo work of nonfiction “becomes something of a mystery novel,” said Charlotte Gordon in The Washington Post. By chance, Romney, a rare-books ...

Rebecca Romney, the author and occasional “Pawn Stars” guest who wrote “Bookshelf,” is a fan of Austen.

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney holds The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, published in 1794. The novel is among the archives that inspired Jane Austen's Bookshelf, Romney's new book on ...