In Laura Piani's knowing comedy, a headbound bookshop clerk finds herself not ruined by the author but charmed by the ...

Despite her insecurities, her friend Félix (Pablo Pauly) convinces her to leave France and accept a literary residency in ...

Here are some of the TV highlights coming up in the next week from Saturday, May 24, including programmes on Ellie Simmonds, ...

The normally private residence where the Pride & Prejudice author took lodgings for the final three months of her life with ...

When we first meet Agathe Robinson, she’s dancing around her Paris bookshop, alone, singing along to a pop song. She seems like a free spirit—uninhibited and joyful. But when her coworker and best ...

The surviving letters do more than illuminate Jane Austen’s daily life; they help scholars explore how her personal ...

To date, 160 of an estimated 3,000 letters have been found and preserved. Most were destroyed by Cassandra before her death ...

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Miss Austen’s rising star Synnøve Karlsen opens up about her role as Jane Austen’s younger sister and what she learned on set ...

Lawyers love Jane Austen, disproportionately—often rabidly—so. A leading London jurist once memorably quipped of his devotion: “I read all six of Austen’s books every year, because if I didn’t, I ...

Gill Hornby’s intriguing and entertaining Miss Austen: A Novel of the Austen Sisters (2020) speculates why. Hornby’s ...

For successive generations the works of Jane Austen have proved popular on BBC Television, from the most primitive live productions for only a handful of viewers in the 1930s, to major adaptations ...