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In Pride and Prejudice (1813), when heroine Elizabeth Bennet arrives at Netherfield Park with “her petticoat six inches deep ...
Banner, silk striped (cream, yellow, red) satin weave ground, date '1775-1817' painted in black, appliquéd scroll of orange cotton velvet and cream plain woven cotton with black painted text 'JANE ...
With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named ...
Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to headline a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility for Focus Features and ...
Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the Masterpiece show.
Masterpiece on PBS‘s latest foray in the romantic world of the Regency era brings us Jane Austen with a twist: Miss Austen delves into the mysteries surrounding the real life author herself ...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice reminds us that some of the most romantic moments are neither a kiss nor a spoken word, but rather a sense of mutual understanding or the simple flex of a hand.
The 18th-century gift that keeps on giving—to biographers, academics, filmmakers, TV producers and, oh yes, readers—Jane Austen has an audience that snaps to attention at the suggestion that ...
About the Show 2025. Miss Austen takes an historic literary mystery – the notorious burning of Jane Austen’s letters by her sister Cassandra – and reimagines it as a fascinating, witty, and ...
Jane Austen fans hardly needed more encouragement, but for the author’s 250th anniversary, the perennial Regency love-in has gone into overdrive. Already underway is a series of country-wide ...
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Decades after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister Cassandra burned nearly all of the author’s correspondence, much to the consternation of future fans and historians. Why were ...