Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, and Millie Bobbie Brown have worn Jane Austen bags on the big screen; Taylor Swift, Leighton Meester, Elizabeth Olsen, and Chapelle Roan have worn them in ...

A new PBS 'Masterpiece' series uses Austen's sister Cassandra as a window into the lives of unmarried Regency women ...

Cassandra Austen, sister to the beloved novelist Jane, was a talented amateur artist. She is finally getting her moment in ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts ...

A man looks at the tiny writing table at which Jane Austen wrote at Jane Austen's House in Chawton, Hampshire, Britain, April ...

Most of Jane Austen’s correspondence was burned after her death. This PBS Masterpiece series speculates as to why.

Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor, such a task was irresistible.

No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure to all six of her masterworks ...