School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice appears on best-loved literature lists across the globe, is a fixture in high school classrooms, and has spawned a rabid fan base and countless film and ...

Legions of “Janeites” will spend 2025—the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth—truffle-hunting for undiscovered morsels in the life and work of English literature’s most famous ...

But of course PBS Masterpiece is going to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. As a treat for all the Austen stans out there, the premier period piece destination is exploring the author’s ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew out of her long admiration for Austen’s confident and witty writing. In her novels and letters ...