Other movie versions of the Jane Austen heroine emphasized her charms. This time she doesn’t care about pleasing her audience. Anya Taylor-Joy, left, the star of the new “Emma,” and her ...

Theater review: ‘Jane Austen’s Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy’ at the Old Globe. ... (Amanda Naughton), leaving her alone in a rambling house with a slightly crotchety older man, ...

A rare first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma has become the most expensive novel by the author ever sold.. The three-volume edition of Austen’s 1815 book includes a handwritten message “from ...

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

Emma: Musical. Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. Music, lyrics and book by Paul Gordon. Directed by Robert Kelley. (Through Sept. 16. TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing ...

Thus begins the novel “Emma” by Jane Austen and the recent movie of the same name directed by Autumn de Wilde. The beloved classic, published in 1816 a year before Austen’s death at age 41 ...

Jane Austen’s Highbury is not a real English town of 1815 but a literary creation ... and, after being rescued by Frank Churchill and conveyed to Emma’s house, faints away.

Emma’s father, Mr. Woodhouse (Bill Nighy), is a screaming hoot as a hypochondriac horrified by his own drafty house and wary of any breeze that might kill him.

In 2008 “Masterpiece” began a marathon, “The Complete Jane Austen.” After “Emma,” two other adaptations of her novels, “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion,” will be rerun in ...

Rock on, Austen. Dance the night away, Emma and Co. A beloved Jane Austen novel gets its groove on: the cast of “Emma.” (Jamie Kraus Photography) If you go. Written by Kate Hamill based on the ...

A Guide to Jane Austen’s Novels . Over the course of less than a decade of her tragically short life, Jane Austen changed the literary world forever.