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’ ...

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

Only one song is mentioned by name in Austen’s novels — the sad love song “Robin Adair,” which Jane Fairfax plays in “Emma” — but the music Austen played and heard shaped her writing. The rhythm and ...

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 ...

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

As the city of Bath celebrates the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, one writer explores the city following in the ...

Fans of Jane Austen are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beloved author's birth with costumed balls and themed events ...

As Jane Austen celebrates her 250th birthday, Ava Pickett has adapted Emma for the stage. She’s taken a radical approach. She talks to Sarah Crompton about why Austen is still the best portrayer of ...

While Jane Austen is best known for skewering the vagaries of romantic love in her novels, there is another, equally complicated and meaningful type of relationship that runs through them, too — that ...

LONDON (AP) — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more ...