The sixth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail explores whether Austen was happy, through the pages of Persuasion.

To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and Northanger Abbey. The novels of coming-of-age and responsibility: Sense and ...

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Jane Austen Persuasion. Austen's last novel published 1818. Captain Wentworth giving Anne Elliot his note of declaration. Illustration by Hugh Thomson, 1897. Engraving.

Jane Austen's words weave a spell that captures love's quiet storms and tender joys, turning everyday romance into something ...

Love, for Jane Austen, had more to do with understanding than fantasy. She rarely gave her characters perfect endings without some mess first. That’s part of what makes her writing feel grounded. On ...

2 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 10 Revealed So far, obviously, so good. But then there is a problem: Kearns’ script. It is not so much that Kearns lacks a playwright’s craft; it’s ...

If I had based my feelings about Netflix's Persuasion purely on Twitter discourse and reviews, I'd think it was going to be way, way more glib and way... worse. The new adaptation of Jane Austen's ...

As fans celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, scholars are still combing over documents to solve the mystery shrouding her final days.

To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and Northanger Abbey. The novels of coming-of-age and responsibility: Sense and ...