The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

Jane is depicted as true idiosyncratic genius, while Cassy is the perfect archetype of an Austen heroine. Of course, with all the flashbacks and flash forwards, characters with similar names and ...

The world of a Jane Austen novel was a dangerous place for a single, young woman. Not only must they fight it out for the best husband, but they are forever falling victim to a fever - usually as ...

mysterious blanks where people or places’ names should be. So, we spoke to Cambridge University’s Professor Janet Todd, author of the freshly-released Living With Jane Austen (which coincides ...

There are many questions a person might ask after watching the trailer of the new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion ... actually exist in early-1800s Britain?

The great English novelist Jane Austen never met her Mr ... it was the only chance to change her destiny in Austen’s genteel gentry society, circa 1800. That was what her art was made of.

Persuasion might not be quite as well-known as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, or other Jane Austen novels ... and released in the 1810s. Persuasion was the last of these: Austen penned the first ...

Seeing Jane Austen and the costume romances of the silver screen might come to mind, and her books from "Pride and Prejudice" to "Sense and Sensibility," published in the 1800s, have an enduring ...

Image Jane Austen’s House, left, in 2014. Austen wrote or revised her six major novels while living there in the early 1800s.Credit...Luke Wolagiewicz for The New York Times Myretta Robens ...

Dakota Johnson smirks her way through a Netflix adaptation of the rekindled romance in Jane Austen’s last novel ... and the novel begin in the early 1800s, as the story’s heroine, Anne ...