Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more clearly.

Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing ...

Driving through the countryside, aspiring author Agathe (Camille Rutherford) and grumpy literature professor Oliver (Charlie Anson) argue about Jane Austen. He might be driving Agathe to a Jane Austen ...

Jane Austen fans are everywhere, and in India, they have found a way to make her novels, characters and plots their own. Plus ...

High-minded and scandal-prone, a foe of marriage who dreamed of domesticity, Fuller radiated a charisma that helped ignite the fight for women’s rights. Alison Bechdel and the Search for the ...

The Paris bookseller in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” likes her men in the Darcy mold, and writer-director Laura Piani obliges.

The 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English ... have some self-awareness that it’s a little cringe. Elizabeth getting a taste ...

CHICAGO (CBS)—More than 200 years after her birth, author Jane Austen's work still ... the book," Parker-Barrows said. Austen novels illustrate young women's times and lives, but they cover ...

I visited this little cottage where she used to live ... “The biggest difference is that in Jane Austen’s books, women had to get married to survive,” said Piani. “A wedding was the ...

“We call it sort of ‘Bridesmaids’ meets Jane Austen. But it’s a little like ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ There are these four women (heroine Elinor Benton, her sister, her best friend and her ...

Having read none of them, Romney looked for insight from critics but found little beyond ... On the one hand, “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” is about the women who influenced Austen.