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An exhibition is marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen by focusing on the Georgian working women of the ...
Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.
As Jane Austen marks her 250th anniversary this year, devoted admirers worldwide have been honouring her legacy by revisiting ...
The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...
Persuasion is the last novel that Jane Austen completed and it was published posthumously in 1817. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a haughty baronet, ...
From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about ...
Ms. Scott and scholars like historian Gretchen Gerzina and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Danielle Christmas, who co-hosted the Jane Austen & Co. series “Race and the Regency ...
Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. July 14, 2022. 7 min. Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Netflix's “Persuasion.” (Nick Wall/Netflix) By Martine Powers.
A few weeks later, it was announced that Esmé Creed-Miles was cast to play her spirited sister, Marianne Dashwood. The ...
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...