The director of "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life" was inspired by Austen's ability to be both entertaining and deep.

Jane Austen was never married, but it seems she had her chances. At 19, Austen met Thomas Lefroy, an Irish nephew of a family friend. Jane and Tom attended several parties together and she wrote ...

Approximately 800 scholars and ardent admirers of Jane Austen convened in Denver on November ... and the author of A de Grummond Primer: Highlights of the Children’s Literature Collection ...

Loosely based on Jane Austen’s most explicitly political and ... Like Fanny Price, at the age of 10, Funke Oyenuga becomes a displaced child at the mercy of better-off relatives, who think ...

The four-part drama, Miss Austen, delves into the life of the renowned author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (played by Patsy Ferran), as seen through the eyes of her sister ...

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 ...

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic expectations of life? If Austen’s denouements (spoiler: everyone gets married) have left you with a longing for either (1) your own happy ending (2 ...

With these words, the Reverend George Austen announced the birth of his daughter Jane, the seventh of eight children (six boys, two girls) born to his wife, Cassandra Leigh. No one could have ...