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Sure, you're familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here's how everyone's connected in the Masterpiece show.
Besides Shakespeare, no author may haunt the screen more than Jane Austen. Her novels, full of heroines who find love and usually a life lesson or two, practically spawned the romantic comedy. So no ...
Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...
When Mr Knightley proposes to Emma, in the book of that title, Jane Austen reports back: “What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.” That’s all nice and fine ...
Directed by Autumn de Wilde and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn and Bill Nighy, this new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma has a lot to say about the relationships between women.
Decades after Jane Austen’s death ... as “Pride and Prejudice,” “Emma” and “Sense and Sensibility”? The four-part PBS Masterpiece series “Miss Austen” offers a theory: Much ...