In Persuasion, Louisa Musgrove’s serious injury opens the way for another suitor. Jane Bennet catches a cold after riding in ...

While some might be bothered by a biography that regularly, and proudly, takes liberties with facts and chronology, such ...

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A housebuilder has created an online writing competition inspired by Jane Austen. The contest by Pye Homes marks the 250th ...

"People today can read these novels and say, ‘This woman is speaking to me,'" Lizzie Dunford, the director of Jane Austen’s ...

So welcome to the world of overconfident wannabe matchmakers (Emma Woodhouse) and ineffectual popinjay suitors (Frank Churchill, Mr. Elton) and of silly, hapless young women (Harriet Smith and, then ...

Does this amuse you? "She gave an unnatural little laugh -- one she had taken to using with her stepchildren as a signal that ...

In celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday this year, the West Newton Cinema hosted “Behind the Screen: Jane Austen ...

Austen's Pride and Prejudice was read by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert together and the monarch recorded in her journal in ...

A spokesperson for Visit Bath said the festival is so popular because the city "pretty much has not really changed" since Austen's days in terms of landscape and Georgian architecture, allowing ...

Residents across Warwickshire are being invited to step into the world of bonnets, ballrooms, and biting wit to mark the ...

Don your gowns, bonnets, and breeches. They’re going all out for the "Pride and Prejudice" author’s big day in December.