As Jane Austen turns 250, a definitive ranking of her novels and why the true power of Austen is still to be found in her written work ...

Persuasion, her last finished novel ... cheerfully divides all literature into two groups: Jane Austen books and non-Jane Austen books. Austen is still relevant – in fact, she’s a way of ...

When Mr Knightley proposes to Emma, in the book of that title ... “A word, a look, is enough,” we hear in Persuasion – but we need a lot of words in a Jane Austen film, along with white dresses, ...

If you’ve ever done that, you’ll probably appreciate Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society, and Literature, a collection of hundreds of quotes from Austen’s ...

Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli, a retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion set in the world of competitive figure skating, has been acquired by Hachette Children’s Group in a seven-way auction.