Next year is the 200th anniversary of her death.

If you're a real Jane Austen groupie you would be interested to listen to this.
Walking in Jane Austen's footsteps. The bit that intrigued me - and why should I doubt the expert? - was that ladies of quality in her time did NOT wear knickers - only prostitutes wore knickers?????

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpwbq

Some more detail:

Jane Austen was a lively, headstrong and determined girl who lived a very full and exciting youth. In her thirties, she published four wonderful novels, but never disclosed her name. After she died, in 1817, her family destroyed most of her letters, and steadfastly refused to discuss her life. Her niece Caroline Austen wrote, a memoir of Miss Jane Austen has often been asked for, and strangers…have wondered that the family should have refused to supply the necessary materials. . . .

After more than two hundred years, Jane & D’Arcy reveals the story of the enduring love of Jane Austen and D’Arcy Wentworth, who was Mr Darcy.

Over time, the Austens’ secrecy was reinforced by D’Arcy’s silence. A tall, handsome young Irish surgeon, he had left England for New South Wales, on the other side of the world.

The day before he sailed, Jane’s brother, Henry, reflecting his family’s sentiments, applauded the world for getting rid of its superfluous inhabitants, all those who have too much cunning or too little money, shipped off with the very first cargo of Convicts to Botany Bay.

Despite time and distance, D’Arcy remained the fixed star in Jane’s firmament.

Folly is Not Always Folly is the first volume of Jane & D’Arcy, the second, Such Talent & Such Success, is to follow. They tell the long lost story of the romance and adventures of Jane Austen and D'Arcy Wentworth that will move and delight readers, and revitalise Austen scholarship.

(I wonder how much money has been made out of Jane Austen compared to the pittance she received for her work during her life)

Thanks for posting that.
I think though, and I stand to be corrected, that it's generally agreed there is no definitive likeness of Miss Austen in existence.