"People today can read these novels and say, ‘This woman is speaking to me,'" Lizzie Dunford, the director of Jane Austen’s ...

The likeness of Jane Bennet was so great that Austen wrote a letter home about the Pride and Prejudice lookalike.

All the faces are turned towards the young boy. He is being passed to one ofthe two fashionably dressed women with powdered hair who are sitting at the table playing chess. The surrounding drapery ...

While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’ ...

Writing great sister acts (think the Bennett siblings of Pride and Prejudice, the Dashwoods of Sense and Sensibility) came naturally to Jane Austen. Or so we gather from Miss Austen, a poignant ...

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.” Who is that talking? “Real Housewife of New Jersey” Teresa Giudice? Or Mrs. Bennet, from “Pride and ...

Masterpiece on PBS‘s latest foray in the romantic world of the Regency era brings us Jane Austen with a twist: Miss Austen delves into the mysteries surrounding the real life author herself. Miss ...

Mark the beloved author's 250th birthday by diving into one of her books — or the many TV, film and literary spin-offs she’s ...