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

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bonnets and boarding passes ready, a brigade of Jane Austen fans from ... the seventh child and youngest daughter of clergyman George Austen and his wife Cassandra. "It must have been a ...

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 ...

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 ...