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To make a forced and artificial division, we might say that there exist Jane Austen novels of youth and folly: Emma and ...
A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains ...
Fevers, fatigue, and a changing complexion? Why modern doctors are still trying to make sense of the symptoms the celebrated ...
"Masterpiece Theatre" is getting a new host (Gillian Anderson), but it's much of the same old/merry old, as this stately production of "Persuasion" launches "The Complete Jane Austen," a mix of ...
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...
A modern telling of Jane Austen's Persuasion.Wren Cosgrove (Witt) is a happy, single, and self-confessed workaholic who, after rising to the top of the corporate ladder, finds herself coming home ...
You might’ve thought Jane Austen had visions of orchestras and chorus lines in her head when she was penning all those famous novels, so regularly are they now adapted into works of musical theater.
Adapting Jane Austen is a double-edged sword. Certainly, there’s a built-in audience ready and waiting. Austen has one of the most devoted followings in English-language literature (the Jane ...
Sara Holdren will direct a staged reading of Jane Austen's Persuasion, adapted for the theatre by emerging playwright Sarah Rose Kearns, on Monday, April 9th at 7 o'clock at The Players in New ...
Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen – Persuasion PBS, Sun. Jan. 13, 9 p.m. Production: Filmed in the U.K. by Clerkenwell Films for ITV in association with WGBH Boston.