Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) sets out to protect her sister’s (and her own) past, lest her private correspondence and intimate ...

Thanks to her sharp wit and strong female characters, Jane Austen’s literature is still utterly relevant. Author Claire Harman ... topical or historical themes in order to be relevant: there ...

People are always kind and loving about it." Where to watch: Paramount+. Although The Jane Austen Book Club isn't technically based on a Jane Austen novel, we would simply be remiss if we didn't ...

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic ... Abbey” (published 1817), Austen’s first completed novel, a frisky satire on the pitfalls of letting books be your guide to life.

Janice Hadlow, whose book The Other Bennet Sister explores the transformation of priggish Mary into an intellectually curious woman, agrees that Austen’s work is a wealth of modern feminist ...

"She was a great fan of Jane Austen but these were the only rare books she ever bought and they would be brought out every now and then, treated carefully by the family, and then put back in the ...