She's a fascinating story. It kind of feels like Jane Austen but a lot more meaty. Really short chapters that you can get into and keep you turning pages. So this book, The Weekend by Charlotte Wood ...

A new exhibition at the author's home in Chawton, which has never previously displayed all six first-edition books together, ...

The combination of Jane Austen and MASTERPIECE is always a reason for celebration! Find out about the new period drama Miss Austen coming to MASTERPIECE on PBS, get details on the cast ...

As every single person in the lecture hall raised their hands when Prof. Elisha Cohn, Department of Literatures in English, asked who had read Jane Austen before, I shrank into my seat. It was the ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a fan in possession of a Jane Austen novel, must be in want of more book-to-screen adaptations. Gifting fans with a brand new period drama, the BBC has ...

The four-part series will air on BBC One and iPlayer in 2025 – to coincide with Jane Austen's 250th birthday – and is adapted by Elizabeth is Missing and Mayflies screenwriter Andrea Gibb from ...

Jane Austen is unique among British novelists ... For this second edition, the book has been fully revised; a new chapter explores the ways in which Austen's work has prompted imitations, adaptations ...

“Miss Austen takes a literary mystery — Cassandra Austen notoriously burning her famous sister Jane’s letters — and ...

Former pharmacist and debut author Jane Yang’s new sweeping historical novel, The Lotus Shoes (Park Row Books, Jan. 2025), is ...

By Juanita Giles “It is perhaps the most relaxing thing that I’ve ever done,” says the actress, whose new book of essays is “Lifeform.” She thanks her own mother for the gift of Margaret ...

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