We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth—and it is being celebrated with new books, events, and a special ...

‘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 ...

Romantic comedies are a dime a dozen. And Romantic comedies inspired by Jane Austen are even more common. In Laura Piani's directorial debut, she boldly takes on modernizing Austen and manages to ...

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 ...

In 1830, 13 years after the death of Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran), Cassandra (Keeley Hawes, deep and affecting) gets a message that the husband of the sisters’ late friend Eliza Fowle (Madeline ...

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 ...

Cassandra Austen's 1795 hand-drawn copy of a plate from a 1786 drawing instruction manual Luke Shears / Jane Austen House When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra ...

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Pride & Prejudice (you know which one), we’re playing Jane Austen-themed trivia at Hidden Gem on Wednesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. Five rounds of 10 questions plus ...

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 ...