Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius is a three-part documentary which focuses on the writer Jane Austen’s life from her childhood to her death at age 41 in 1817.

Kate Chopin is often seen as one of the earliest feminist voices in American literature, frequently credited with bringing modern feminist ideas into fiction. Yet her place in feminism is anything but settled.

In the mid-eighteenth century, an Enlightenment-driven push for economic progress and agricultural 'improvement' swept through Scotland.