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The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...
Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on ...
The incredible story of a young woman who ripped up the rulebook and reinvented the novel. Famous faces celebrate her ...
The BBC has released a brand-new drama for Jane Austen fans that's not to be missed. The new series coincides with the Pride ...
No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure to all six of her masterworks ...
The cast and crew on the enduring bond between Jane and Cassy. Miss Austen takes an historic literary mystery – the notorious burning of Jane Austen’s letters by her sister Cassandra – and ...
Northanger Abbey was among the last of Jane Austen’s novels to be published, but one of, if not the very first, to be written. The book chronicles a summer in the life of young Catherine Morland ...
The 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...
For decades, English novelist Jane Austen has been a constant source of inspiration for filmmakers and TV creators looking to adapt her work, but also authors who want to expand her world and our ...
Ms. Byrne is the author of “The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things” and “The Genius of Jane Austen.” If “Pride and Prejudice” is the most joyful and life-affirming of Jane Austen ...
Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were ...