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The title, curator Dale Stinchcomb told Observer, is a nod to variations of a phrase that appears in several of Austen’s ...
The museum upends various misconceptions about the novelist’s life by celebrating the anniversary of her birth through a ...
This literary romance draws on Jane Austen for its inspiration for its story of a lonely French bookseller and aspiring novelist who has to choose between her old friend and ...
The BBC has released a brand-new drama that Jane Austen fans won't want to miss. Timed to coincide with the author's 250th birthday, Jane Austen: Rise of Genius is now available to stream on BBC ...
“Northanger Abbey” is the least beloved of Jane Austen’s six novels. It also appears frequently in university-level literature classes. These two things are related. Completed largely in ...
Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” played by the luminous Camille Rutherford, hasn’t so much been ...
‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’ Review: A Writer Confronts the Terrors of Romance and a Blank Page in Laura Piani’s Charming Debut Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the ...
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 ...
What became the charming “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” took some years to grow into its final form, and even Piani didn’t know she was going to direct it at the start. The film has already ...
No wonder she’s so wild about Jane Austen. But, despite the title of Laura Piani’s fresh romantic comedy “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” the heroine of this story isn’t totally at the ...
Masterpiece on PBS is whisking us back into the romantic Regency era world of Jane Austen, only this time, Jane’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) is our leading lady. The new Masterpiece show ...
Jane Austen is one of the English language’s most beloved writers, and yet the details of her own life remain relatively unknown. As the story goes, and as the new PBS “Masterpiece” series ...