freedom and fortune in an era when “experts” said that women who read novels (let alone wrote them) were probably morally ...

Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

Interestingly, Jane Austen wasn't the only one in her family with a flair for writing; her brother James Austen was a poet and the first in the family to be published. Due to societal norms of the ...

T he 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English writer published ...

GIVE me period drama, historical fiction or anything that isn’t set in the modern day and I will be glued to it. I’ve got my ...

What did Jane Austen read, in between writing "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma"? In "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," "Pawn Stars" ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best Austen-themed festivals, reenactments and balls of the year.

“Our bookend productions this season are both Jane Austen-focused, so there’s obviously a lot of love there,” says Tyler ...

Jane Austen herself never married ... start of a women’s rights movement in the late 18th century, the Georgian era did not provide equal opportunities for men and women. This power imbalance ...

Jane Austen herself never married ... start of a women’s rights movement in the late 18th century, the Georgian era did not provide equal opportunities for men and women. This power imbalance ...

In the show, a young Cassandra (Synnøve Karlsen) was betrothed to Tom Fowle (Calam Lynch), but the modest curate perished at sea while on a journey to amass wealth. Devastated, Cassandra never married ...

On a rainy evening in Santa Barbara, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life opened the 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival. A line of umbrellas stretched along the Arlington Theatre, protecting an audience eager to ...