Blue Jean helmer Georgia Oakley is directing a new take on Sense and Sensibility with a Twisters star in the lead role.

Jane Austen’s letters reveal her trademark sharp wit—sometimes maybe too sharp for polite society. ... they help scholars explore how her personal experiences shaped her fiction.

The show’s title, curator Dale Stinchcomb told Observer, is a nod to variations of a phrase that appears in several of Jane ...

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City is commemorating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth with a landmark ...

The museum upends various misconceptions about the novelist’s life by celebrating the anniversary of her birth through a ...

To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death in 1845, erasing large parts of Austen’s personal history. The ...

I built the character inspired by Jane Austen’s “Persuasion,” on Jane Austen’s life, and on my own experience as a reader, a writer and a bookseller —and my own grief, because I was ...

Modestly scoped, sometimes sweetly dopey, and sincerely moving, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a charmer. I watched the whole dang thing with a smile, and then painted my nails a very French red in ...

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

Author Gill Hornby discusses writing her novel, Miss Austen, redeeming Cassandra Austen’s legacy, and why she thinks Cassandra burned Jane's letters. #PBSMissAusten ...

'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' is all about ... particularly Agathe’s whole personal journey to figure out ... but I completely understand and empathize with the writer’s block she experiences.

Camille Rutherford stars in 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,' Laura Piano's directorial debut rom-com about a bookseller who attends a writers' retreat.