Robin Swicord’s romantic comedy The Jane Austen Book Club follows a group of Californian people as they delve into the oeuvre of the author Jane Austen and find strange similarities between the themes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agathe harbors the romantic notion that she is living in the wrong century and struggles to finish a book inspired by a fantasy.

Dec. 16 marks the 250th birthday of the incomparable Jane Austen. While we can’t honor her with a grand ball at Pemberley or a slice of Bath bun birthday cake, we can celebrate the timeless gifts she ...

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 that ...

First there was the Summer of the Three-quel (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s 13, Bourne). Now we seem to be in the Autumn of Jane Austen. Last month ...

Two specialists from the Jane Austen Society of North America share intriguing highlights of the author's life, career and literary impact.

BOOK PICK: ‘Jane Austen: Writings, Politics, Society’ delves into the cultural milieu in which the novelist lived and the world in which her books take place. What influenced the time-honored author ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic expectations of life? If Austen’s denouements (spoiler: everyone gets married) have left you with a longing for either (1) your own happy ending (2) ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. No matter how many copies of Jane Austen's novels you already own, there's ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...