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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...

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) ...

Jane Austen, a celebrated English writer, penned six beloved novels exploring love, marriage, and social class in early ...

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 ...

This year marks the English novelist’s 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer valuable insights into her imaginative wit and enduring appeal Ellen Wexler - ...

One character in “The Jane Austen Book Club” describes the author’s novels as chick-lit that most men would enjoy if they gave it a chance; similarly, the film is a “chick flick” guys might well grok ...

Inside the nationwide celebrations for the author's 250th birthday and the new generation of readers discovering her 19th century heroines.

From modern-day adaptations of her enduring classics to one that celebrates her iconic side characters, don't miss these Jane Austen favorites Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She ...