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 ...

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since the author’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laura Piani's fresh rom-com about a love-challenged French writer is more "Persuasion" than "Emma," but still finds its own pains and pleasures with ease. Agathe Robinson is beset by two classic ...

From elegant Georgian crescents to picturesque country estates, England is a treasure trove for Jane Austen admirers. Whether ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Austen‘s novels have been adapted by Hollywood plenty. Amazon Studios and Di Novi Pictures have acquired for feature the Rachel Givney breakout novel, Jane in Love, that will make her ...