After Shakespeare, Jane Austen is the most widely recognized literary figure today, and in the past thirty years, there has been a seemingly endless stream of TV adaptations, films, books ...

Also, surprise parties are very much a no-no… “We are to have a tiny party here tonight; I hate tiny parties – they force one into constant exertion” - 1801 letter from Jane Austen to her ...

“A word, a look, is enough,” we hear in Persuasion – but we need a lot of words in a Jane Austen film, along with white dresses, officers, and a nice big party. I have checked out an ...

So, we spoke to Cambridge University’s Professor Janet Todd, author of the freshly-released Living With Jane Austen (which ...

And like all trends that come from specific eras in time, much of what constitutes as 'Jane Austen dressing' falls to a ...

Jane Austen is one of the English language’s most beloved writers, and yet the details of her own life remain relatively unknown. As the story goes, and as the new PBS “Masterpiece” series ...

Derbyshire is set to welcome a host of Jane Austen-themed events this summer. They are to help celebrate the novelist’s 250th birthday, and the 20th anniversary of Chatsworth House being ...

With 2025 marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth ... audience members become part of the show in the party-ready venue. In Austen’s book, Emma Woodhouse is a member of the ...