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This year is the 250th anniversary of author Jane Austen’s birth. Cue a plethora of festivals, celebrations, readings and ...
A TV historian has said she thinks Jane Austen would be disappointed that women do not have equality in 2025.Lucy Worsley was ...
The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so fascinated by Jane Austen 250 years after her birth.
Cassandra (Synnøve Karlsen) and Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) are the central characters in PBS’ new miniseries “Miss Austen,” an adaptation of Gill Hornby’s book.
Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the Masterpiece show.
Jane Austen, one of the most beloved novelists in the English language, ... Mary is never knowingly funny. When her youngest sister, Lydia, elopes with the unscrupulous Mr. Wickham, ...
Jane Austen takes a comedic twist at the iO Theater 02:46. ... Her characters are funny, and we know these people, and so it's relatable now, as much as it was, you know, 200 years ago, ...
Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part because of an act that infuriates many to this day.
We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants to dazzle critics and readers. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends ...
With 2025 being the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, films and other productions referencing Austen seems to be increasingly everywhere in recent years. Some of them are swooningly romantic ...
This year, fans of the British romantic novelist Jane Austen are celebrating 250 years since her birth. ... So even then she was well enough to carry on writing. And it's a very funny poem.
From a 21st-century vantage point, it’s all too easy to pigeonhole the novels of Jane Austen as the ultimate in prim and proper Englishness – although their plots still hold up, as Clueless in the ...