Lawyers love Jane Austen, disproportionately—often rabidly—so. A leading London jurist once memorably quipped of his devotion: “I read all six of Austen’s books every year, because if I didn’t, I ...

This Bafta-award-winning film is based on Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name. From director Roger Michell, it stars Amanda Root as Anne Elliott and Ciaran Hinds as her lover, Captain Frederick ...

Even though Jane passed years earlier, her presence is still felt as her books have become ... the help of Jane’s novel Persuasion!) DECIDER caught up with Miss Austen star Keeley Hawes last ...

"What Janeites have in common is a love, an obsession, with Jane Austen," said Deborah Yaffe, author of the 2013 book "Among the Janeites ... is due out sometime late this year or early next.

Anne Rouyer, a supervising librarian for young adults at the New York Public Library, is smitten with Jane Austen’s Persuasion, which she calls “Austen at her most hopeful and romantic.” The book ...

In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...

Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy. So no ...

Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, Emma and Mr. Knightly, Elinor and Edward, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth—is there any romantic story more compelling than those penned by Jane Austen? The timeless ...

And there are the meta-Austen tales, stories about loving Austen’s stories: “Austenland,” for instance, and “The Jane Austen Book Club.” The well of, and thirst for, Austenalia is ...

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

Inspired by the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ author, an eight-day trek through the English countryside from Oxford to Bath wasn’t ...