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The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...
We discuss how London Gallery Weekend can impact the market and how Brazil's National Museum plans to rise from the ashes, ...
If you’ve ever fantasized about stepping into a Jane Austen novel—minus the corsets and cousin proposals—consider this your ...
Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” ...
Camille Rutherford plays a French bookseller who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to attend a writing residency named after ...
A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...
Portrait of Jane Austen, year and artist unknown. Historians rely on Jane Austen’s correspondence as firsthand evidence of her thoughts and relationships. The letters offer clear insight into ...
Novelist Jane Austen has been given a makeover for the cover of a book about her life after publishers decided an original image of her was unattractive. "She was not much of a looker," said Helen ...
As Miss Austen dramatizes, the mystery of the missing ... The only authenticated portrait of Jane was drawn by Cassandra; it remains the image used on Britain’s ten-pound bank note and the ...
To get a feel for the original, see portraits of the writer at The Jane Austen Centre in Bath—or just take a peek at Keira Knightley’s hair in the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice.
But while “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” certainly qualifies ... but the way it plays out is both unexpected and gratifying — a clear-eyed portrait of why Agathe’s singledom is not the ...