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The film is called Jane Austen Wrecked My Life and it tells the story of struggling writer Agathe, played by Camille ...
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
All of Austen’s leading men are rich, which certainly helps to intensify their charms. But that’s not everything.
A portrait of the only Jane Austen character "explicitly of African descent" has been revealed, to mark 250 years since the ...
In “Six Weeks by the Sea,” Austen scholar Paula Byrne expands on a family anecdote to imagine a love affair for the famously ...
A beloved period drama is now available to stream online and it's not the only series fans have been loving, as another ...
Felicity Kendal will read extracts from Austen's letters, notebooks and novels, with the selection curated by internationally ...
From the pompous vanity of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion (1817), to the shallow reading habits of Isabella in Northanger ...
Fevers, fatigue, and a changing complexion? Why modern doctors are still trying to make sense of the symptoms the celebrated ...
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...
Like the confines of a mining ship in deep space, the plot of an Austen novel is less small than it is dense and ...
Moviestore/Shutterstock Jane Austen purists love to compare the 1995 miniseries to the 2005 remake. By nature of being a series versus a film, the 1995 version is able to really dive into the ...