This December, BBC Radio 4 and 4Extra will mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with a season of programming celebrating the life, legacy, and literary brilliance of one of Britain’s most ...

A n overlooked period drama has made a surprising return to the PVOD charts. Sanditon, an adaptation and continuation of Jane ...

The Character: Cassandra Austen, the beloved sister of classic author Jane Austen, who wanted to protect her sister Jane’s legacy. Why She Took the Role: “When I received the script, I had been sort ...

We’re slowly getting word of all the new arrivals scheduled for November 2025, and now included among them is the US streaming video on demand debut of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. This French ...

BATH, England — Imagine that 250 years from now, people dressed like you (in Hokas and hoodies, maybe?) are parading around Boston Common in your honor. That’s what happened to author Jane Austen, who ...

Most of us think we know something about Jane Austen. As I began research for Jane Austen’s Paper Trail – a new podcast from The Conversation marking 250 years since her birth – I certainly believed I ...

CHAWTON, England — By the time she died at just 41, Jane Austen had penned six books that would revolutionize the English novel and created a cultural phenomenon that lasts to this day. Her most ...

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When Jane Austen, a figure revered across the globe for her portraits of human nature, began her writing career, it was completely anonymous. Her first novels were simply marked as “the author,” ...

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 ...

Jane Austen interest is reaching a fever pitch as we near the 250th anniversary of the lauded author’s birth this December. The latest development is that Sotheby’s is auctioning off three extremely ...

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 ...