Elizabeth Kantor, author of The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, explains: “Romanticism was an intellectual fad when Austen was writing. She makes fun of the Romantic idea of love. The love ...
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 ...
There is a wealth of classic literature, from Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to Nick Joaquin and Haruki Murakami, that readers can re-read or begin reading this Christmas and beyond.
But two and a half centuries on from her birth (on December 16th 1775), Jane ... all six of Austen’s novels with colourful new covers. “Pride and Prejudice” remains the most popular of ...
The rare books are part of a new permanent exhibition, “Jane Austen and the Art of Writing,” at her family’s former cottage in Chawton, a village located some 50 miles from London.