Most of us are familiar with the works of Regency author Jane Austen, whether we have read one of her six classic novels or ...

Only this wasn’t a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s best-known work, it was a rerelease of the beloved 2005 film starring ...

At 250, Jane Austen still sees through pride, insecurity and desire with rare clarity, revealing why her novels feel truer to ...

On the novelist's 250th birthday, a UVA English professor explains why Austen's vivid characters and universal themes ...

The novels’ gentlemen are exemplars for modern men, according to Joseph Wurtz, dean of students at Benedictine College. He ...

Harings says Lizzie is her favorite Austen character. "She has such sharp, sarcastic wit and she's so self-confident, despite ...

Jane Austen loved music."She played the piano and sang throughout her life," says Gillian Dooley, pianist, academic and ...

Jane Austen was the seventh child and second daughter of the Rev George Austen, a Church of England clergyman, and his wife ...

Her books like Pride and Prejudice and Emma were written hundreds of years ago, but have themes that still resonate in today's society.

This opening line from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" wasn't just a sly dig at the marriage market of early 19th- ...

That was the day I nearly disowned my one and only brother. Yes, the same man who once borrowed my first edition-worthy set of Austen paperbacks and returned them looking like they had survived ...

Through Pride and Prejudice, Austen offers a subtle critique of a society that values emotional restraint over moral clarity.