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The themes of family and sisterhood come to life in PBS’s four-part miniseries with its debut earlier this month ...
Historians and Jane Austen fans alike know that Cassandra, Jane’s older sister, burned her sister’s letters after her death. Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s bestselling novel, reimagines that ...
Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the ...
Rather than projecting our own concerns, we should look at what she was reading and how she engaged with the ideas of her ...
The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...
Inspired by the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ author, an eight-day trek through the English countryside from Oxford to Bath wasn’t ...
Although this year marks 250 years since the novelist’s birth, women are still on the hunt for financially eligible bachelors ...
If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally ...
This Bafta-award-winning film is based on Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name. From director Roger Michell, it stars Amanda ...
Four new graphic novels cover a gamut of subjects, from a serious-minded study of Charles Schulz’s artistic legacy to the ...
Students in Professor Carolyn Dever’s first-year seminar class put together an exhibit honoring author Jane Austen’s works on ...
the heroine of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, my husband and I decided to channel her characters’ love of country strolls, walking from ...