Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...

Laura Piani's rom-com about a love-challenged French writer is more "Persuasion" than "Emma," but still finds its own pains ...

A hopeless romantic working in a bookshop meets Jane Austen's great-nephew in the new French rom-com "Jane Austen Wrecked My ...

A new three-part BBC documentary does an absorbing job of demonstrating how intermingled were her life and work: a widowed ...

Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

Miss Austen details how Cassy Austen might have had a second chance of romance with the (fictional) Henry Hobday, but ultimately chose to stay with her ailing sister. Jane Austen did in fact die young ...

For many famous literary authors The places are not just backgrounds, but protagonists from the great literary works Sices ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life isn’t your typical rom-com—and that’s exactly the point. Director Laura Piani wanted a love story ...

It is probably fair to say that among the first things you might think of in relation to Jane Austen would be a glamorous event, usually involving dancing, at a well-appointed English country house.

Students in Professor Carolyn Dever’s first-year seminar class put together an exhibit honoring author Jane Austen’s works on ...

Throughout the year of the author’s 250th birthday, the British spa town of Bath is celebrating its place as an Austen-lovers paradise. Jane Austen fans taking part in the world-famous Grand ...

Four new graphic novels cover a gamut of subjects, from a serious-minded study of Charles Schulz’s artistic legacy to the ...