Robin Swicord’s romantic comedy The Jane Austen Book Club follows a group of Californian people as they delve into the oeuvre of the author Jane Austen and find strange similarities between the themes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agathe harbors the romantic notion that she is living in the wrong century and struggles to finish a book inspired by a fantasy.

We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants to dazzle critics and readers. “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf” contends that ...

It might look like a scene from yet another Jane Austen production, but this is no set. The British town of Bath recently held a celebration of the author 250 years after her birth. This historic ...

Dec. 16 marks the 250th birthday of the incomparable Jane Austen. While we can’t honor her with a grand ball at Pemberley or a slice of Bath bun birthday cake, we can celebrate the timeless gifts she ...

First there was the Summer of the Three-quel (Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Ocean’s 13, Bourne). Now we seem to be in the Autumn of Jane Austen. Last month ...

Can reading Jane Austen give us unrealistic expectations of life? If Austen’s denouements (spoiler: everyone gets married) have left you with a longing for either (1) your own happy ending (2) ...

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...

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With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named Agathe ...