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 ...

There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s ...

In celebration of her 250th birthday, here’s a list of some of the best film adaptations of novels by Jane Austen.

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley ...

Miss Austen, the BBC’s newest series, has all the hallmarks of any Jane Austen book. There are suitors. There are spinsters.

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama, and director Aisling Walsh chime in on the debate along with writer Andrea Gibb who calls the show “a feminist piece.” ...

New documents discovered at Longleat suggest legendary author Jane Austen may have drawn direct inspiration from the ...

As Miss Austen, a new series focused on Cassandra Austen, debuts on the BBC, we delve into the history of the other Austen ...

Spotlights pierced the rainy night skies Tuesday to declare the start of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.  The Arlington Theatre was packed ...

Lights. Camera. Action. It's that time of year when downtown Santa Barbara is filled with directors, writers, actors, ...