In Jane Austen’s 1814 coming-of-age novel Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, a young woman who learns to navigate high society when she moves into the estate of her aunt and uncle, receives an amber cross ...

Her writing lives on (she died on this day in 1817, and we’ll celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth next December), offering us timeless characters. Left: The Rice portrait is believed by the ...

Born 250 years ago, Jane Austen remains the reigning queen of the marriage plot and, by extension, the romantic comedy. So if there’s something a bit discourteous in the title of writer-director Laura ...

Today's quote comes from the 19th-century writer of 'Pride and Prejudice.' ...

Meet the woman who lives like Jane Austen – from dressing in Regency-style costume to writing novels. Jessica Bull has been in love with the writer ever since the first episode of Pride and Prejudice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura ...

Two centuries after her death at age 41 in 1817, Jane Austen’s six completed novels — including Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey — still pull readers, filmmakers and devoted fans ...

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 ...

Fans across the globe celebrated Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this week, and at UCLA, students in the upper-level Austen class are celebrating completing their final projects: writing their own ...

When author Georgina Jackson, stalled after one chapter into her second book, is offered a lucrative opportunity by her agent to finish an incomplete Jane Austen manuscript, she has to face up to the ...

A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 at the Morgan Library & Museum dives into the author’s world and her immense, ongoing legacy a quarter of a millennium after her birth. Autograph letter to Cassandra ...

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...