Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions, still feels fresh 250 years after Austen’s birth.

Only one song is mentioned by name in Austen’s novels — the sad love song “Robin Adair,” which Jane Fairfax plays in “Emma” — but the music Austen played and heard shaped her writing. The rhythm and ...

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While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’ ...

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

The BYU English Department and English Society celebrated Jane Austen Day in honor of Austen's 250th and BYU’s 150th birthday ...

There are some authors who have seen their works turned into films many times over. Well, they haven’t “seen” it necessarily, because they tend to be dead. William Shakespeare never got around to ...

I first took an interest in Jane Austen after watching Pride & Prejudice (specifically, the 1995 BBC version – sorry, Kiera Knightley’s flick can’t compare). It wasn’t just THAT Colin Firth pond scene ...

Like many of her fellow Hampshire Regency Dancers, Potts is a devotee of Jane Austen and all things from the Regency period. Not only have they studied the books and watched all the screen adaptations ...

LONDON (AP) — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more ...

As Jane Austen celebrates her 250th birthday, Ava Pickett has adapted Emma for the stage. She’s taken a radical approach. She ...