| 单词 | Austen |
| 例句 | Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas tells her friend Elizabeth Bennet that it is better to go into a marriage blind to the other persons faults. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen’s novels there are star-crossed lovers who have impediments thrown in their way—by their parents, society, or their own doubts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He pauses, then says, “Haven’t you read Jane Austen? We English are more uptight than you lot, isn’t that so?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t remember having had an enemy since kindergarten, when Katie Austen took a crayon and drew mustaches on all the pictures of Grandma Beetle in my copy of Just a Minute. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But happiness in marriage, as Austens heroine Elizabeth Bennet knows, is not only a matter of chance. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you read Jane Austen? English people are more uptight than us, not less.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She read the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I read Gray’s “Elegy” again, and when I finished that he asked me not to stop, so I read the beginning of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home—Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Stop trying to Jane Austen my life!” he yells back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Admired by Jane Austen, Dr. Johnson, and David Hume, Blair edited the first Scottish edition of Shakespeare and a forty-four volume uniform edition of the English poets. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But insulated by her money, a staff of paid attendants, and unwavering self-absorption, Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained as oblivious as Jane Austen’s Emma. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One friend wrote, “It is very like a marriage of Miss Austen’s, can I say more!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Unlike the young women in the novels of Jane Austen, Emma Wedgwood was not mooning over Charles or plotting for a marriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruity truth: My favorite English author is Jane Austen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Only three early Austen letters are preserved in any British national collection, according to the group. Group Raises $20 Million to Preserve ‘Lost’ Brontë Library 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z That if I know more about the historical context of a Jane Austen novel, I won't be able to enjoy that Dakota Johnson movie? Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z But it’s more than convincing and every now and then, as a kind of homage or reminder, hits the precise, epigrammatic Austen note. Books of The Times: ?Death Comes to Pemberley? by P. D. James - Review 2011-12-26T22:48:22Z Austen’s characters are old friends I can visit any time. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z She suggested that "Austen was loved for the same reason audiences were fond of Downton Abbey". Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z “Every trope in romantic movies was in Austen novels first.” The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Austen was born in 1775, and her literary career began in earnest with the 1811 publication of the novel "Sense and Sensibility." Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z It is all perfectly pleasant but, when Austen herself commented on the novel's "playfulness", I doubt she actually envisaged it as a piece of theatre. Pride and Prejudice – review 2013-06-26T13:04:42Z Austen covered sufferers of chronic illness: Mrs. Smith in “Persuasion,” Anne Elliot’s confidante, wise and infirm before her time; the invalids of “Sanditon,” Austen’s final, incomplete manuscript. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Austen, in fact, had many early male champions, and the term “Janeite” — coined by the critic George Saintsbury in 1894 — was embraced by male fans like Rudyard Kipling, who wore it with pride. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z There are authors who write in tidy, classifiable, immediately recognizable genres — Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, to name a few — and then there are those who adamantly do not. Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ defies easy categorization 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Just in time for panto season, here's artist David Austen's first feature-length film, End Of Love, a post-apocalyptic vaudeville number recalling cinema's early days. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z Jackson never denies the excellence of Wordsworth’s poems, or the brilliance of the novels of Jane Austen, whom she also writes about. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Today, it welcomes visitors from all over the globe to see the world in which Austen resided. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z As Austen remarks with shrewd sarcasm in Mansfield Park, "the enthusiasm of a woman's love is beyond even a biographer's". The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Austen's attentive first readers would surely have come close to despising Marianne when they heard her saying this. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z But Ms. Le Faye, who has edited a collection of Austen’s correspondence, said Austen was writing letters “perfectly ably” up to about six weeks before her death. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Austen’s wit — her subtly sharp barbs in the dialogue and her satirical humor — is overshadowed in this production, which relies on exaggerated emotional outbursts, hammy slapstick, quick shifts of cadence and large, clowning gestures. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The characters can be raucous and the situations ungenteel, but not since “Clueless,” which transported “Emma” to Beverly Hills, has Austen been so delightedly interpreted. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z For Austen, his lack of life marks the most poignant death of all: the death of possibility. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z As a child she began to haunt a local library and decided to read English literature A through Z. Thank God, she says, for Jane Austen right at the start. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z Pym has been called heir to Jane Austen, her observations possessing a similar undercurrent of wicked irony. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Austen scholars have long known that her novels were prescribed reading for shell-shocked soldiers in British hospitals during World War I: They were found to be soothing to the patients’ shattered nerves. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Austen occupies a key position in the long continuum of modern feminist thought. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The screenwriter Andrew Davies took many liberties with Jane Austen’s final, incomplete novel. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Outsider’ and ‘Sanditon’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Austen St. Barbe Harrison, Hoffman's second subject, decamped from Jerusalem in an even greater hurry in 1937, 15 years and one day after his arrival, precisely the time required to claim his government pension. Three architects who built Jerusalem: How they shaped and fled (and were forgotten by) the conflicted city 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “A Room with a View” Jane Austen’s romantic dramas are much beloved, but for me, James Ivory and Ismail Merchant’s classic film version of E.M. The top five Valentine’s Day romance films 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Janine Barchas, an Austen scholar at the University of Texas, Austin, called the discovery “wonderfully cool,” before inquiring, “Did the Prince Regent pay full price?” Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z "The costume is wrong and the image creates a myth Austen was a demure spinster and not a deep-thinking author." Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z As in Jane Austen’s novels, the narrative centers on the war between individual attraction and social constraints in a complex, contentiously hierarchical society. So You’re Rivals? And You’re Fake-Dating? Classic. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Loyal Jane Austen fans were shocked – shocked! – that the series' creator Andrew Davies took the author's subtle sensual references that far. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z He picked it up as a Harvard freshman and declared Austen overrated. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s not that I haven’t read the Jane Austen novels — I have — but it’s still embarrassing to have to be told by well-meaning friends and my wife what I’m supposed to get from them. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Jane Austen and Mary Shelley wrote novels about manners and monsters respectively, while Byron pumped out poetry. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen The novel is shaped by a will. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z A painting described as the definitive portrait of Jane Austen is to be sold at auction in December. 'Definitive' Austen work for sale 2013-10-31T12:42:16Z Though its origins are medieval, the town became famous after the discovery of mineral waters in 1716, which attracted a stream of travelers including King George III and Jane Austen. In England, Cheltenham Enjoys a Cultural Renaissance 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z What do you think it is about Pride & Prejudice specifically, and Austen’s books in general, that lets them really speak to readers even 200 years later? Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z Austen’s novels become acts of revision, do-overs that correct narratives, showing us what was missing from them before. The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Heard only by Fran and us readers, Austen offers wry comments on the lifestyles, decisions and hypocrisies of not just her fellow travelers, but also the 21st century itself. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z A book that was the first touchstone for me was “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing” by Ben Austen. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z She went on to publish nine more novels, five story collections, three poetry collections, several plays and a biography of Jane Austen. The Radical Ordinariness of Carol Shields’s Literary World 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z Literary giant Tom Robbins said of her book, “It could stagger Charles Dickens, electrify Maxim Gorky and cause Jane Austen to walk around in army boots.” Civilities: 8 LGBT names to know in 2016 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z I went back and read a lot of Dickens, a lot of Thackeray; I read Austen, even though she's not Victorian era, and I had a lot of fun with that. "My editors were just egging me on": "Yellowface" author on depicting the cutthroat publishing world 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Austen wrote in the early 1800s, when life for most women involved submerging their individual identities in their responsibilities as daughters, wives and mothers. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Her “journey through the world of Jane Austen fandom” is amusing and sometimes mind-boggling. The Austen Legacy: Why and How We Love Her, What She Loved 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Dr Byrne said that if readers found Austen "a comfort" it might be because she described a world where "everyone knew their place". Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z The writer is the former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Since that doesn’t quite work here, the question is what else is on offer, besides the most persuasive commercial for Austen ever created? Review | A writer spent years reading only the work of Jane Austen. She learned a lot about herself. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Jane Austen didn’t do so badly in her lifetime, but how amazed would she be by where she is now? How Karen Joy Fowler’s Grandfather Lied His Way Into a Who’s Who 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Have the posh in this country really not changed since Jane Austen's time? Forget Kirstie Allsopp's advice – listen to me, the Nigel Farage of fertility 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z English majors the world over can pay tribute to their idols at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey, where writers like Lord Byron, Rudyard Kipling, Jane Austen, William Blake, and many more are memorialized. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Scanning videos for blackface or searching text files for the n-word is so much easier than contending with, say, the systemic tokenism of TV rom-coms or the unbearable whiteness of Jane Austen. Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The supporting role that she was born to play: the well-born Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the Jane Austen classic, upon whose approval and patronage so much depends. Every Judi Dench film – ranked! 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z In short, if you are running low on what Austen would term “fresh life and vigour” — no matter what the scale says — you are not healthy in her book. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Austen is popular the world over not just in the US. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z Other chapters, too, take small bits from Austen’s original and amplify them into darkly comic sexual exploits. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z But even Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, had close contact with England’s criminal justice system in 1800. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z For George Wickham, the infamous knave of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” 30 years has furnished ample opportunity to live plenty of lives. Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Photograph: Stock Montage/Getty Images Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that "of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z A vignette I am tempted to add to Barchas’s collection would describe the presentation copy of “Emma,” bound in red morocco gilt, that Austen reluctantly sent to the Prince Regent in 1815. When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I wouldn’t want Jane Austen professors in charge of such decisions. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z This 1814 novel has never enjoyed the obsessive fandom other Austen books attract. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z He also met his lifelong companion, Howard Austen, around this time. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z A film company is hoping to turn the life of author Jane Austen into a romantic comedy. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He said SXSW, held annually in Austen, has "a great vibe for music, and it's centrally located, so timing-wise it works well to broadcast across the US." Coldplay to open US iTunes festival 2014-02-20T12:37:27Z Verbal acuity, as Austen knew, is the gift that keeps on living. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z We always think of Austen as so poised and elegant; there is a sort of rage underneath that lives in this character, which I really liked seeing. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Austen is a classic novelist, one whose books "Emma," "Sense and Sensibility" and the beloved "Pride and Prejudice" have themselves been turned into delightful romantic comedies on screen. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Austen's fiction is, we might say, not so much about what her characters think as what they think about what other characters think. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z “Jane Austen Turns in Her Grave,” a headline in the Daily Mail read. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Austen, who died in 1817 at age 41, published six novels. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z The send-ups goes for humor by juxtaposition, playing Austen off of her prim reputation for laughs or shock value. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Lewis, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens — and discussed at the dinner table, in the car, on walks. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But that wasn't Austen's life -- that was her imagination. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z And by “us” I of course invite men, but really, it’s women who have always considered Ephron family, allying with “My Nora” the way “Pride and Prejudice” devotees might claim “My Jane” Austen. Affairs to Remember: Nora Ephron’s Classic Rom-Coms 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Take a look at Mary Shelley's locket, a set of Jane Austen novels, and the Codex Mendoza. Literary treasures from Oxford's Bodleian Libraries 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Maria Edgeworth, then one of Britain’s most famous novelists, was far better known than Austen. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Under the smart direction of McArthur and Simon Harvey, the cast conjures all that is piquant and joyful in Austen’s work; you can imagine Jane getting a kick out of the antics. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Which brings us back to “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.” Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z In "The Great Reformer", British Catholic writer Austen Ivereigh connects the pope to his Argentine roots, showing how his country, its culture and its politics helped shape him. Book Talk: Great Reformer biography links Pope Francis to Argentine roots 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z O’Connor, an actress who’s played her share of period heroines, starred in the 1999 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park,” a film that — like this one — takes a frisky approach to its source material. ‘Emily’ Review: A Brontë Sister’s Savage, Hardy and Free Life 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z There’s a moment toward the end of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” when the heroine goes to a picnic and is horrified to discover that she is not as wonderful as she once believed. How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Emma’? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In her By the Book interview, Lorrie Moore finds “shocking” a dubious account she read somewhere about Jane Austen’s mother handing off her son, Austen’s brother, to strangers. What Lorrie Moore Doesn’t Know About Jane Austen … and Other Letters 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In the course of the play Jane Austen is invoked; and, although Gionfriddo works within a small compass, she has clearly studied the great novelist's ability to shift the moral perspective. Review 2011-01-21T00:42:01Z She has authored a range of works, from Jane Austen pastiches to a postmodern black-comic riff on the French Revolution. ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ adapter takes science on an awfully big adventure 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “What’s the right age to introduce my daughter to Jane Austen?” the man in the classroom asked me. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The collection will be useful to Dickinson scholars, she said, but also to scholars of fan culture — an area where Dickinson, thanks to the show, may be catching up with the ever-expanding Jane Austen Universe. A 21st-Century Emily Dickinson Finds a Home in the Archives 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Her character is one of the least changed from Austen's original writing. PBS' "Sanditon" brings Jane Austen's racy and racist subtext into the open 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Or I’ve gotten, “I don’t like this. Sounds too much like Jane Austen.” For this young adult author, girls want more than to just have fun 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z If you read Jane Austen more or less annually, as I have done since my late teens, you end up marking yourself against the characters. The literary (anti)heroes of middle age 2010-09-01T09:33:00Z All that one might wish for, in the Austen drawing rooms of one's imagination. Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z And along the way, the reader, too, may discover in Brownstein's book what the author discovers in Austen: a means of transporting ourselves to a more gracious and better-ordered world. New books on Jane Austen: lessons for the ages from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 2011-05-04T19:28:04Z Austen despised "pictures of perfection" – heroines who have no flaws. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z In May 1813, a few months after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Austen was in London, staying with her brother Henry. New website displays celebrities of Jane Austen's youth 2013-05-24T10:41:54Z The other book that was formative is Persuasion by Jane Austen. Amal Awad: 'Arab women have traditionally been written about in a very patronising way' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z You could say precisely the same about Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Henry James. A life in writing: Jack Higgins 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z “I am a huge Jane Austen fan,” he said. Joel Kim Booster Jokes About Grindr and Asian Stereotypes 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z When “Sense and Sensibility” appeared in 1811, Austen was a nobody, identified on the title page only as “A Lady.” Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The eponymous Ms Woodhouse might be Austen's least likeable heroine – a meddling snob who translates awkwardly to screen. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z Catching us wondering how Mr Palmer in Sense and Sensibility, an intelligent but ill-natured man, could possibly have married a woman as idiotic as Charlotte Jennings, Austen lets Elinor reflect on the puzzle. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Jane Austen said, “Man has the advantage of choice; woman only the power of refusal,” but Casey is determined to hold out for a plot on her own terms. Review | Lily King’s ‘Writers & Lovers’ delivers pure joy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Leaving Austen and her ilk aside, prestige adaptations of recent romance novels are scarce, with HBO’s “True Blood” series, based on the Charlaine Harris’s paranormal romance novels, probably the most high-profile of them. For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Maybe, instead, we could take Jane Austen’s words into account, as spoken in her novel “Emma”: “It was a delightful visit; — perfect, in being much too short.” With hosting at a standstill, we revisit the highs and lows of having — and being — houseguests 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The novel is incomplete and was written before Austen was a published writer. Early Jane Austen manuscript to go on auction 2011-05-23T18:22:58Z Jane Austen is going to be reworked — again. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Sense and Sensibility' for Modern Times 2011-09-13T18:57:04Z "Pride and Prejudice" might not have been the only Jane Austen novel inspired in part by Morley, Law says. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Like Freud thinking that Shakespeare arrived at the insights of psychoanalysis a few centuries early, Chwe believes that Austen understood and applied all the main concepts of game theory avant la lettre. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Austen notes that long waiting lists for relatively few units left poor applicants without other options for safe lodging. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I also, and less stressfully, love the heroine of Jane Austen’s “Emma.” Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Thank God her last name was Austen … The Accrington Public Library ran on the Dewey Decimal System, which meant that books were meticulously catalogued, except for pulp which everybody despised. We must protect and reinvent our local libraries 2012-11-23T08:28:01Z A 1998 update of “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen — a thrilling love story in its own right. 18 love songs, movies and more to set a Valentine’s Day mood 2014-02-13T01:20:35Z Emma is one of the most complex characters in all of Austen's six completed novels. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z It's possible to read "Pemberley" as a stand-alone, but familiarity with Austen clearly multiplies the book's many pleasures. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z Uniquely among her younger relatives, it seems, Caroline actively shared both Austen's literary and musical interests. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey" happily abandoned her music lessons at an early age, but there are female musical characters in the other five of Austen's six completed novels. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z But too few of them convey evidence of Austen’s editorial scrutiny. Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z But—as Austen could tell you—first impressions are often simplistic. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z We’ve put some of the recent Austen industry highlights together for you in a board game. On Austen, New Books, Banknotes and Board Games 2013-08-08T23:29:06Z And if you were to be a Jane Austen heroine? Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z In a hokey stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” by the Bedlam theater company, a Victorian woman learns the hard way that some decisions are best made on one’s own. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The letter is from Austen to Anna Lefroy, the eldest daughter of the author's eldest brother Rev. James Austen. Jane Austen letter critiquing 'prosy' contemporary at auction 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Austen is a genius with the weather, making it the very principle of chance entering her narratives. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Rather it is a series of essays that show how humdrum household objects turn into emblems of Austen's character and evidence about her abiding concerns. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Mr. Darcy, said Professor Sutherland, is the “beau idéal, the male star of Austen’s fictional world.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Back in 1995, in the midst of cinema's brief fixation with Jane Austen, director Roger Michell made the definitive film of "Persuasion": as literate and elegant as it was underestimated upon release. "Modern Persuasion" review: Alicia Witt’s appealing presence powers half-hearted Jane Austen update 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z “Miss Bennet” was a success in its rolling world premier in 2016, praised by the Washington Post as “a gift for Jane Austen fans” and by the Chicago Tribune as “droll and quite delicious.” The 99-Seat Beat: Holiday theater to get you in the spirit, from Jane Austen to Chico's Angels 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z And if Austen never finished the novel, then why should the producers? Review | Jane Austen never finished ‘Sanditon,’ so PBS is happy to fluff it up and draw it out 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But Ms. Wells said scholars teaching Austen at schools with “substantially multicultural students” still wrestled with a truth that must, perhaps, be uncomfortably acknowledged. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The proceeds were enough to get Austen into a nursing home. Review: In ‘Alice in Black and White,’ a Pioneering Photojournalist 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Oddly, the transaction took place two days before the book’s first public advertisement — making it what scholars believe to be the first documented sale of an Austen book. Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z After the Austen-themed banknote was announced in 2013, it drew criticism from Austen experts who thought the image of the author was "airbrushed" and "prettied up." Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Two centuries after Jane Austen’s death, the only acceptable happy ending to a fictional story about a single woman is one involving marriage. Hadley Freeman: single women, bag that man now! 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen’s language. 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z "Speaking for myself, I feel I ought to read them but I cannot overcome my prejudices," says Maureen Stiller, honorary secretary of the Jane Austen Society in the UK. Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z The first worries about "the future" surfaced as the era of Austen, Stendhal and Flaubert drew to a close. İnci Aral: The future of the novel 2013-02-28T14:00:02Z Of course, electronically-inclined Austen fans need not stop at a daily quote. Got an insatiable desire to read Jane Austen every day? There's an app for that. 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “To find something relating to Austen is a thrilling bonus.” Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It was early July, on the first day of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s “Commemorating Jane Austen” pretour. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z More immediately, the company is in the planning stages of a Jane Austen festival, tentatively slated for 2012 in conjunction with the University of Washington, with shows, panels and other events. Empire waists and tea: Austen at Book-It 2011-05-26T20:25:15Z We are not told this: Austen's first readers would have "seen" this garb, and registered the clash of official sorrow and private happiness. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Austen’s coping mechanism and chief weapon was humor; the Brontes relied on drama. Joy to the world, "Little Women" has come – and the updated classic is a modern marvel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z "Without knowing what she did", indeed, for the ball allows Austen to stage Elizabeth's almost unconscious interest in Mr Darcy. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z The groom’s mother is a former freelance journalist and past president of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Manon Clavel, Michael Solender 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z In the book, Piketty used examples from Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac to explain how currencies and the investment value of land were understood during those authors’ lifetimes. ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ Review: Economic History, Illustrated 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Wheelchair-bound in his 80s and saddened by the death of Austen and many peers and close friends, the author still looked to no existence beyond this one. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z "It was deeply moving, to hold in my hand a notebook of the 17-year-old Jane Austen. And then, to turn the pages of Kafka's first draft of 'Metamorphosis,'" he said. Ian McEwan's archives acquired by the Ransom Center 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z In making Emma too perfect, the film becomes Emma's fantasy of her own life rather than Austen's more balanced portrayal of her heroine's many faults. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z A recent release in this flow is Emma, Autumn de Wilde’s sugary Austen adaptation. The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Attendees’ knowledge often goes far beyond Austen’s six novels. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z They wanted to know about Austen’s life, career and literary status. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z She said that she is "obsessed" with Jane Austen. VIDEO: Pride and Prejudice 200 years old 2013-01-28T07:59:07Z Jane Austen once wrote that a large income was the best recipe for happiness. Jane Austen letter critiquing 'prosy' contemporary at auction 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The students also identified similarities between Austen’s world and their own. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z But small things like shawls and brooches come and go, fashionably ephemeral, whereas Austen is a classic and will be with us, I trust, for ever. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Austen's own letters to her sister are full of chat about adapting clothing to mark the death of this or that relative. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Northanger Abbey being the shortest of Austen's novels, its love story is also the most rapid. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Slightly older than the men, she cooks for them, worries over them and like Austen's Mrs. Bennet, stays back when they go onto some parties. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Austen is feeling her way, across these first three novels, into a brand new kind of fiction. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z Looser’s essay also addresses patriarch George Austen’s previously revealed ties to another family’s West Indian sugar plantation, calling them “very real” but “both under-described and overstated.” Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Defending novels in Northanger Abbey, Austen declared that this was the literary form in which "the greatest powers of the mind" were exhibited, and her own achievement justifies that brazen claim. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Only when it comes to the truly great writers – Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy, Flaubert – does TV fail, producing pale shadows of the original works. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z “Jane Austen, Game Theorist,” just published by Princeton University Press, is more than the larky scholarly equivalent of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z Teaching Austen’s novels of manners to convicted sex offenders is certainly not something I ever envisioned myself doing. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jacobson, meanwhile, has described himself as "a Jewish Jane Austen" while others have called him a "British Philip Roth". Howard Jacobson wins the Booker for The Finkler Question 2010-10-12T20:48:00Z “Eligible,” by the best-selling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, is a “modern retelling” of “Pride and Prejudice,” commissioned by the Austen Project, which has been pairing contemporary authors with various Austen works. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But things were getting steamy for Austen long before Davies and Firth came onto the scene, as I describe in my new book, “The Making of Jane Austen.” Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z “She has a principled, practical approach,” said Robin Swicord, screenwriter of “Little Women” and writer-director of “The Jane Austen Book Club.” Ava DuVernay and ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z Nearly 200 years after her death, the Hampshire of Jane Austen is certainly there. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z "The church is like something from a Jane Austen novel with these very tall, very dark box pews," she says. Shake the room: how architecture is inspiring dance 2012-06-24T17:00:01Z The way he saw it, Austen’s Mrs. Dashwood and her three teenage daughters were like prisoners. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Austen supplements his account of these policy failures with interviews with former Cabrini-Green residents. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It's not like I'm trying to assume the Jane Austen mantle for all time. Curtis Sittenfeld: 'I know my characters are unlikable sometimes' 2013-06-15T16:30:00Z It was surprising that, in the acknowledgments to The Pregnant Widow, Amis thanked Jane Austen for the "penetrating sanity" she had imparted to the English novel. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z With only three episodes left to get his characters galloping to a Jane Austen photo-finish, Mr. Fellowes knew he was going to have to start inciting a little fellowship. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 7: Crash and Burn 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z As summer wanes, here’s one more title for your reading list, especially if you prefer your novels literary but light: “Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden.” Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z All of this, riveting in itself, underlines the breadth of Austen's experience of life; spinsters in vicarages know more of the human condition at first hand than might be imagined. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z I have enjoyed pull quotes from Henry James and Jane Austen, but reading their prose — forget about it! In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z As Austen observes, the policy created a disincentive to marry, because a husband’s wages might render a family ineligible to remain in its home. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But now, for the rest of the summer, my follow-up question will be, “When did you last read some Jane Austen?” Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Danes comes a lot closer to fulfilling the famously wrong prediction Jane Austen made about “Emma,” saying, “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Television Review: ?Homeland,? Starring Claire Danes, on Showtime ? Review 2011-09-29T16:32:19Z Nor has he bothered to provide this book with an introductory essay, leaping instead directly into Austen and James. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z There is plenty of low comedy as well, a bracing silliness that places Austen in the line of British humor that extends through P. G. Wodehouse to Monty Python. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z And the playful script, by Alice Victoria Winslow and Ron Bass, offered an opportunity, Cracknell said, “to speak to a new audience who maybe doesn’t know Austen.” ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Today she admitted the next book she read would be a Jane Austen novel. Kingsolver wins Orange prize 2010-06-09T19:37:00Z Our game theorist applies the lessons learned from Austen to examples of American diplomatic "cluelessness" over recent decades. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z They had two daughters in quick succession, and Ms. James often recounted escaping into literary worlds during her second pregnancy, exchanging London bomb shelters for the “sanity and peace” of Austen’s fiction. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 Though Ms. Bawden suffered post-traumatic stress after the crash and was unable to write for several years, she eventually produced “Dear Austen.” Nina Bawden, Author of ‘Carrie’s War,’ Dies at 87 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z But it has prompted the most sustained chatter among Austen scholars, a more reliably liberal bunch who, like Ms. Wright, emphatically reject white nationalist readings of her novels. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z One of the big hopes I had for the film was to draw in a new audience to Austen, and to make them feel that they really recognize the people onscreen. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In fact, Mr. Honan found, Austen was in close correspondence with — and deeply attached to — a host of people embroiled in those events. Park Honan, a Biographer of Authors, Is Dead at 86 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z In 2000 Binchy was ranked third in the World Book Day poll of favourite authors - ahead of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72 2012-07-31T09:27:27Z Austen, for one, wanted her readers to be clever. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z Austen perpetually pushed back on the common estimation that the greatest tragedy for a woman is to never have wed, which Lady Denham spells out during their first reunion. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z But a few — Shakespeare, Austen, Twain — grow more amplified by each new generation. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Of course, Vidal famously refused to identify as gay, despite his authorship of “The City and the Pillar,” one of the first modern gay-themed novels, and his 53-year relationship with Howard Austen . Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The research was commissioned by television channel Drama ahead of the launch of its Austen season. The true face of Mr Darcy – long, oval and pale 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Jane Austen was absolutely questioning the structures and the confines that women found themselves in. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Cohen’s commitment to reading Austen in an explicitly antiracist way generates some of the book’s most interesting passages, especially when she recounts Austen’s support for abolition, which nonspecialists may not be aware of. The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z I had encountered him — just as I had Langston Hughes and Jane Austen and Geoffrey Chaucer — by more conventional means the year prior, as an attentive reader of his published work. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z This being Austen, it somehow all works out in the end. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z One of the few Austen manuscripts to survive, “The Watsons” was revised and corrected in Austen’s tiny, precise handwriting. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z I remember when I was trying to do “Metropolitan,” in breaks I would read a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser. Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a pleasure to find out how Sittenfeld has updated classic Austen scenes to fit this new milieu. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z This week in 1815, Jane Austen was preparing for her 40th birthday on Dec. 16. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z “Sanditon,” which was filmed here last June and premiered in Britain in August, is based on Austen’s final, unfinished work, a book relatively unknown even to fans of her six much-filmed completed novels. PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z In terms of huge fish to tackle, Jane Austen in Becoming Jane was pretty big, so if they forgave me that maybe they'll forgive me this. Anne Hathaway: 'I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them' 2010-12-26T00:05:06Z In the 20th century with developments in cheap printing techniques and distribution, Austen inspired fanzines. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z Austen herself offered readers very little description of Mr. Darcy, introducing him only as someone who drew “the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Tolkien's “The Lord of the Rings” beating out Jane Austen's “Pride and Prejudice” for the top honor. PBS, with help from celebrities and authors, aims to find 'The Great American Read' 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Like your favorite Austen novel, “Invincible Summer” reconciles the cultural reality of an era with the personal lives of its characters. ‘Invincible Summer’: A book-club friendly novel for the season 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Austen's formula -- a witty tale of a young woman drawn into a romance that is thwarted or resisted, with a resolution that ends in marriage -- serves as a template for big screen rom-coms. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Instead, she suggests we can — and should — read our Austen with eyes open. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The words conjure up a character from Jane Austen—a Lydia Bennet or an Isabella Thorpe. A mismatch made in heaven 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z That bond between theater and author continues this month, with a new version of the Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility" — following Book-It's popular stagings of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," "Emma" and "Persuasion." Empire waists and tea: Austen at Book-It 2011-05-26T20:25:15Z Nabokov’s lecture on Jane Austen documented in “Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature,” edited by Fredson Bowers. Sandra Cisneros Loves to Read About Women Waging Battle 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The book, scheduled for publication in fall of 2013, is part of a six-book series that matches authors of “global literary significance” with the classic Austen works, the publisher said on Tuesday. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Sense and Sensibility' for Modern Times 2011-09-13T18:57:04Z Had Austen’s aunt been found guilty, the maximum sentence would have been death. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z On hearing of Mrs Churchill's death, Mr Weston shakes his head solemnly while thinking – Austen cannot resist telling us – "that his mourning should be as handsome as possible". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z I imagine Jane Austen excusing herself, slipping off to the powder room and politely asking when she might be allowed to return to the afterlife. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z But the moment the trailer for “Persuasion” was released, Austen purists rose up in collective indignation. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z I can understand it when it's a period drama: if you're doing Jane Austen on TV, sticking a black or Asian face in there might be odd. Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian 2010-04-05T21:05:00Z What you can't recreate on the tube is Austen's ironic tone. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z Until he began making films four years ago, Austen was best known for his bold text paintings. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z Devoney Looser, an Arizona State University professor and author of “The Making of Jane Austen,” unearthed the Rev. Henry Thomas Austen’s attendance at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, which drew some 500 delegates. Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today – love, money, family. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z In “The Jane Austen Society,” debut novelist Natalie Jenner uses the village of Chawton in Hampshire as the gathering point for her battered and brokenhearted. Review | ‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z "Pride and Prejudice": Jane Austen's tale of woo is so beloved, there's another film or stage adaptation around every corner. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z As a result of Francis’s actions, the entire Poldark family will have to “retrench,” a term familiar to fans of Austen’s “Persuasion,” while the miners are likely to starve. 'Poldark' Episode 5 Recap: Heady vs. Grim 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z And with Miss Lambe, Jane Austen’s only black major character, “You think, what is she going to do with that?” PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Autumn de Wilde is chewing raw ginger slices in a Beverly Hills hotel room when I enter to discuss her directorial feature film debut, a sprightly new take on Jane Austen's Regency-era comedy "Emma." "Emma." finds its hilarious humanity through the body's betrayals 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z As it must in any decent Austen adaptation, the story more or less takes care of itself, as the action shuttles between London and various country houses. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In Paris, she stripped away opera gloves and a blue dress with a Victorian pattern, inspired, she said, by a movie about Jane Austen. Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z “I also wanted Sydney to be more dangerous and volatile than other Austen heroes. He is a physical person, with a potential for violence, who drinks and smokes and rabble-rouses, not a period drama type.” PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z It's the same kind of attitude that would look back and enjoy Jane Austen but enjoy Trollope even more. Edward Gorey's sensibility is growing like nightshade 2011-03-05T03:09:56Z Of course, no Austen adaptation will ever satisfy the most rigorous fans. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Eliot's brilliant descriptions and Austen's anti-sentimentalism are fundamentally different from Fitzgerald's angst and irony or Lee's social commentary and coming-of age novel. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In one of Bawden's last books, Dear Austen, the author told the story of the crash in the form of letters to her late husband. Bawden tribute by East End author 2012-08-23T08:31:09Z Mr. Honan wrote five major biographies in the last four decades, including books on Jane Austen and Shakespeare. Park Honan, a Biographer of Authors, Is Dead at 86 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Only two are officially recognized as representations of Austen, including a watercolor sketch by her sister, Cassandra, and neither looks particularly like Anne Hathaway. ArtsBeat Blog: Author Says She's Found a Portrait of Jane Austen 2011-12-05T15:56:52Z A writer spent years reading only the work of Jane Austen. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Three men vie for Wren's affections in the course of the film, but those familiar with Austen's tale will spot the Captain Wentworth proxy immediately. "Modern Persuasion" review: Alicia Witt’s appealing presence powers half-hearted Jane Austen update 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z But I took, then and now, Jane Austen to be not so much a pleasant few hours' diversion but a manual for life, and looked beyond the dazzling protagonists for better guides through it. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z Such rich source material, and yet an adaptation that has sucked much light and sense from its story, disappointing and infuriating Austen fans. "Persuasion": It was the best of characters, it was the worst of characters 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Austen famously characterized “Pride and Prejudice” as “rather too light & bright & sparkling.” Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z A few of the students were conversant not only with how many centuries separated the lives of Shakespeare and Austen but with the finer points of Shelley’s "Frankenstein." Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The intelligentsia can't keep her to themselves; in fact, the power of Austen's writing seems disproportionate to the purchase it offers for interpretation. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z Even more confusing is that proprietor Danielle Hulton is a lovely young woman who looks like a character in a Jane Austen movie. A clean, well-lighted place for computer programming manuals 2014-02-12T21:26:57Z Although Austen only wrote six books, there is no shortage of witticisms. Got an insatiable desire to read Jane Austen every day? There's an app for that. 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z She is composed and contained, like a character in a Jane Austen novel. Ruth Dickey and the turnaround at Seattle Arts & Lectures 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z I’m a professor who’s been teaching, writing and speaking about Austen at public universities for decades, so it’s a question I’ve fielded before. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It was confident, audacious, and true to Austen’s world view. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z This shift of a couple of inches between the Austen and Tolstoy adaptations marks another notch on television’s bedpost of flesh-flashing. Flashing the flesh – a history of TV nudity 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The incomplete work is the earliest surviving manuscript for a novel by Austen, probably written in 1804 but not published in Austen's lifetime. Jane Austen manuscript fetches $1.6M at auction 2011-07-14T12:04:09Z The scene – which does not feature in Jane Austen's original novel – spices up Darcy's relationship with Elizabeth Bennet in a way that would certainly have been frowned upon at the time. Mr Darcy surfaces as statue in London lake 2013-07-08T13:18:00Z As a result the next £10 note will bear the face of Jane Austen. What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? 2013-07-27T21:15:01Z Theirs is a bouncy, jaunty take on Austen, with a 10-member cast taking on an assortment of roles that are always clearly defined, sometimes as graphically as caricatures by the Dickens illustrator Phiz. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Some of the plot was based on Jane Austen’s “Emma,” which she read in a lit class when she was in film school at New York University. ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There are no letters from Jane Austen herself; much of her correspondence was destroyed after her death. Jane Austen family letters, 'Wicked Ned' works acquired by Huntington 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z He says the Austen appeal is not about dating or womanhood; it’s about moral order, and that’s why we need her advice these days. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z Austen would be a well-known and likely popular choice. Jane Austen 'waiting in wings' to feature on UK banknotes 2013-06-25T12:04:43Z Her favourite author is Jane Austen, whose heroines faced similar dilemmas. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z Well hidden, and not always open, the library displays a short manuscript by Jane Austen: “To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy,” a poem of mourning written when Austen was just 23. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z But this new version of Austen’s frequently adapted work is, in fact, a rather faithful and straightforward adaptation. This Millennial ‘Emma’ Respects Its Elders 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z They posed questions about Austen and politics, about Austen, the history of feminism, and the #MeToo movement. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z That said, Vidal lived for 53 years with former advertising executive Howard Austen. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z It's in the fine detail, Mullan says, that we get to understand how Austen's characters think and feel. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z A conservative quoted a line from Austen supposedly suggesting that she, like all proper British women, would be appalled by the proposal. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z “Issues of race, racism and racial justice are central to Jane Austen’s day,” she said. Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z For anyone who still has sap in them, there is nothing like dancing – nothing to rival what Austen calls "the felicities of rapid motion". Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z “Quite frankly, I was delighted that a man with as many foibles and flaws as the Prince was reading Jane Austen,” he said. Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z "I was really into Jane Austen. Kind of like how some kids are into 'Star Trek,' I was into Jane Austen." 'Shakespeare nerd' Maggie Grace has been 'Taken' by the action genre 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z On display will be a playbill from a performance of “The Merchant of Venice” that Austen attended starring legendary actor Edmund Kean and a letter in her own hand describing what she saw. ‘Cult of Celebrity’ exhibition explores similarities between Shakespeare, Austen 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z While translators deserve credit for giving Chinese readerships a glimpse into Britain's former socio-cultural mores, their strategies sometimes failed to connect food culture in Austen's era to contemporary Chinese culture. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s both self-consciously mannered and merrily playful — a mixture that Austen herself might find just right. The week ahead: mead-brewing classes, Chuck Close’s giant faces and, of course, SIFF! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Sighing, Stillman confessed that he wished his were the only Austen of the decade. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It's a good week for world premieres with Rajiv Joseph’s fantastical new drama "Mr. Wolf," a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and the tune-filled satire "Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S." L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Austen is the first female author to appear on a British bank note. Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Why, then, might Austen feel the need to let Mrs Bennet so far into the narrative texture of a novel that clearly sees her as an object of ridicule? Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z She also finds herself in want of a wife — a truth universally acknowledged for the prosperous bachelor, as Jane Austen noted. Review: ‘Gentleman Jack’ Finds a Swaggering Woman in Want of a Wife 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Discussing literary works she'd like to live in, she mentioned Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," then confided she also dreams of more personal territory, the old school of Harry and friends. Fans stand and cheer for author J.K. Rowling 2012-10-17T07:16:04Z Austen published six complete novels, including Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, before dying in 1817 at the age of 41. Austen script sells for ?993,250 2011-07-15T07:47:25Z It is one of the quirkiest lots we've ever sold – up there with one of Napoleon's teeth and a lock of Jane Austen's hair. Coronation Street cat Frisky's ashes auctioned for ?700 2010-07-22T15:34:00Z Jane Austen's works are globally renowned, but they were unknown in China until 1935 when two different translations of "Pride and Prejudice" were published. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Among the books reviewed on Callum’s account are works by Jane Austen, George Orwell and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones series. Top authors take to Instagram to defend teenage book lover 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z No Dickens, no Jane Austen, none of the classics — no Bellow, no Roth, no Sontag. Reading the Fine Print 2012-12-14T05:00:00Z Trollope herself advised Austen fans against reading it: "There are few fans of classic writers who identify themselves so intimately with the writer as Jane-ites," . Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z The latter was used as a domesticated translation to render Austen's references to wedding cakes into Chinese. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Jane Austen seems to bring out the best in people — and especially in actors. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Humor is a balm; I needed badly to smile, and Austen was irresistible. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Jane Austen directs our sympathies like a Beijing traffic cop – balletic and graceful, she is also very firm and unambiguous, brooking no argument. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z Kick off your Pride with "Fire Island," which takes Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to . The best new movies to watch at home soon, from "Everything Everywhere All at Once" to "Fire Island" 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The point made each time is nothing new, certainly not to Austen devotees, though it always bears repeating: her work remains ever relevant, to everyone. Review: Author tells of reading Jane Austen 2011-05-03T12:10:21Z You begin to feel the force of Austen's observations that, at the earlier assembly ball in Pride and Prejudice, Mr Bingley "danced every dance". Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z The man who told me he had a daughter said he’d read the first several chapters of "Sense and Sensibility" — the only Austen novel the prison library happened to have — in preparation for my visit. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Tracey Hutchings-Goetz, a graduate student in English at Indiana University, recalled working with a group of feminist literary scholars last summer to revise the Wikipedia page for Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice.” Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Jane Austen is so much about the minutiae of social hierarchy and where everyone stands. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z I don't think I really criticized Jane Austen so much as the fervor around protecting her. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Age matters very much to characters in Austen's novels: think of Elizabeth Elliot in Persuasion, unmarried at 29 and approaching "the years of danger". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Despite the lack of much of a physical description of Darcy in Austen's source material, Firth's portrayal became what people thought of when they considered the character. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z He meditates on Shakespeare and Austen and Dickens and Melville and Milton, among others. Books of The Times: In ‘Across the Pond,’ Terry Eagleton Explains the U.S. 2013-07-11T19:40:24Z Austenland Keri Russell stars as a woman so profoundly affected by author Jane Austen work, she goes to an English theme park inspired by her novels, hoping to find a "Pride and Prejudice" style romance. Friday's TV Highlights: 'Austenland' on Starz 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z She chose not to write about it in her novels, but Austen knew very well what was going on over the channel – as her music shows. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z More than other literary favorites, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are cultural stars, celebrities on a first-name basis with the reading public who enjoy robust followings centuries after their deaths. ‘Cult of Celebrity’ exhibition explores similarities between Shakespeare, Austen 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Although Austen is one of the most famous writers in history, there was no official portrait made of her. First ever Austen waxwork unveiled 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z That's the kicker of Sunday's Season 2 finale of "Sanditon," PBS' series adaptation of Austen's unfinished novel of the same name. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z But there were also amateur historians, like Barbara Calderbank, a former manager for the Royal Post Office who once presented a paper to her local group about the significance of the mail in Austen novels. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It is a bold move on Austen's part to allow Lydia to escape scot-free from her "infamy". Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z After all, Austen also owned Chico, a Chihuahua. Spare Times for Children for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Austen informs us that Emma "was not loth to be first." Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z We were going to talk about selections I’d chosen from Austen’s writings, including the first pages of "Pride and Prejudice" and some short, comic pieces she’d written in her teens. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The filmmakers frame Dido’s story much like a Jane Austen narrative and suggest that Dido inspired political and literary milestones. ‘Belle’ and Slavery’s End in Britain 2014-04-25T18:31:59Z “Austenland”: Keri Russell plays a thirty-something American single woman obsessed with Jane Austen who goes to England for a stay at a Jane Austen theme park. Bremerton Blackberry Festival | Weekend Preview 2013-08-28T22:37:15Z Austen described early 19th-century Christmas meals as occasions when there were "brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel." Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z My new book, The Disgrace of Kitty Grey, is set at the time of Jane Austen. If you like books like these: historical fiction for teens 2013-05-14T08:00:00Z "For Austen," he says, "choice is a central concern, even obsession." Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Catherine Hubback, Jane Austen's niece and a novelist, too, at 52, left her husband in an asylum and their three adult children, and travelled by railway from New York to San Francisco. Land of two acts 2013-03-05T08:00:00Z Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z In moments like these, the new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” which opens in British theaters on Friday, seems like a bold departure from its restrained source. This Millennial ‘Emma’ Respects Its Elders 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Each chapter of “Wonderworks” discusses multiple related texts and their hidden inventions: the “valentine armor” in Jane Austen, the “empathy generator” in “Oedipus Tyrannus,” the “gratitude multiplier” in “Middlemarch.” Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Not whether it was acceptable for men to like Austen — who was seen at the time as a “manly” author — but whether it was acceptable to not like her. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z But she said she was unsurprised by Ms. Wright’s article, given that Austen’s name has “long circulated on the far right,” and just about everywhere else. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Pride and Prejudice Adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel about love and courtship in 19th-century England. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead it’s a fascinating, richly illustrated study of what we can learn from the numerous popular editions of Austen’s novels that appeared during the 19th and 20th centuries. Review | Beyond the bestsellers: Lesser-known literary delights make perfect holiday gifts 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The other surprise in “Death Comes to Pemberley” is that marriage has made Elizabeth Bennet, Austen’s smartest, sharpest-tongued and most beloved character, a little dull. Books of The Times: ?Death Comes to Pemberley? by P. D. James - Review 2011-12-26T22:48:22Z Walters’s Mrs Austen says things such as: “Affection is desirable; money is absolutely indispensable.” Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Austen wrote it when she was about twenty, as a family amusement, not intended for publication. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z If I could have three more, at this moment in time, I would choose Albert Camus, Jane Jacobs and Jane Austen. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z I felt Austen peering over my shoulder at all times. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z But her triumph on the small screen, two years ago, was in Miss Austen Regrets, a searching study in a neglected romantic life and a performance of rare sympathy and intelligence. David Thomson on Olivia Williams 2010-04-01T21:40:00Z How was the transition from Napoleon Dynamite to Jane Austen? Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z Now people are groaning about all the Jane Austen adaptations. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The same impudent fantasy provoked Austen to scribble marriage banns for herself and a variety of imaginary husbands in the register of her father's church. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Ephron also learned from Shakespeare and Jane Austen that the genre requires a little bite, the threat of emotional violence not far below the surface. Nora Ephron’s romantic-comedy revolution 2012-06-27T16:35:00Z He was a popular teacher and wide-ranging scholar, and his expertise extended from Shakespeare to Jane Austen to Russian writers Pushkin and Tolstoy. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “Being able to compare these sites allowed us to analyze the body of work with how much realism is actual underpinning his impressionism,” said Austen Barron Bailly, Peabody Essex’s curator of American art. The quest to retrace the tracks of seascape painter Childe Hassam 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Hamill and Mr. Tucker have sidestepped the problem by transposing Austen into the key of Dickens. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Isabel Archer is easily one of the most attractive heroines in all of western literature, right up there with Austen's spitfires. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z Jane Austen wrote about more than her own time; her books remain popular because she describes human beings for all time. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In the weeks before the sale we have been reminded of the remarkably international appeal of Austen, one of Britain's greatest authors. Jane Austen manuscript auctioned for almost ?1m 2011-07-14T18:26:22Z "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do," wrote Jane Austen in her debut novel, "Sense and Sensibility." Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z Did the romantic classics of Jane Austen and the Brontës really need more sex scenes? @svangildercooke Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy has fueled a thousand middle-aged female fantasies. Brontë Bondage: Classic Literature Gets 50 Shades of Grey Treatment 2012-07-18T17:31:18Z Jane Austen’s self-enclosed world enveloped me, soothing in its contours and assumptions. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z One explanation, I think, can be found in Austen's employment of the word "business". Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z She was right, though I wondered aloud if she found Jane Austen similarly pale? The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z Sophie Gee’s Aug. 2 review of Rachel Cohen’s “Austen Years” reminded me that during both World War I and World War II, Jane Austen’s novels were included in book packages sent to the fighting troops. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Austen erotic mash-ups have had a go of it in two separate series, Clandestine Classics and the Wild & Wanton editions. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Lambe is a historically credible figure, not modern wish fulfillment for diversity, according to an expert on Austen and her times. Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The Reverend Jane Austen owned one of these state-of-the art vehicles, and Byrne vividly evokes the thrills and spills of this new high speed form of transport. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z If Jane Austen were alive today, would her books come in pink sparkly covers? Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent ? and also ditzy and klutzy' 2012-02-12T20:00:11Z In the 200 years since her death, Austen has remained categorically misunderstood, and deserves to be read with an eye to Britain’s politics of the time, Kelly argues. New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z That role was a nod to his breakthrough as an actor, playing the aloof Mr. Darcy in a 1995 television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel "Pride and Prejudice." Oscar king Colin Firth says time to turn to comedy 2011-02-28T11:57:29Z And because it’s never too early to love Jane Austen, there’s “Mr. Darcy the Dancing Duck,” a picture book by Alex Field, and “Little Miss Austen: Sense and Sensibility: A Babylit Opposites Primer.” On Austen, New Books, Banknotes and Board Games 2013-08-08T23:29:06Z Also, I would never presume to think we come close to emulating the genius of Jane Austen. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z “There were only two words used by Jane Austen to describe Miss Lambe, ‘chilly’ and ‘tender.’ Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z “The trouble is, Jane Austen lived such a quiet, placid life that there isn’t a great deal of drama in it,” she said. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There is a special group of Austen characters who may talk and talk, but never get a word of their speech quoted. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Scrutiny of all objects belonging to Austen, from paper clips that may have bound her manuscripts to scraps of writing on paper, has long been something of a cottage industry for academics. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The classic Austen preoccupations with real estate, income, class, reputation and equilibrium in life are all rendered brightly and legibly here. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Staff at the museum invited Clarkson, 2002 winner of the American Idol TV, to visit the house where Austen wrote and revised all of her six completed novels. Jane Austen ring campaign launched 2013-08-12T08:57:23Z There are people who every year reread “The Lord of the Rings” or Jane Austen’s six novels or the complete adventures of Sherlock Holmes or all the plays of Shakespeare. Perspective | To read or reread? New books are alluring, but don’t discount the value of the familiar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z For decades he shared a villa in Ravello, Italy, with companion Howard Austen. 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z On the strength of that response, "Masterpiece" teamed up with Britbox to make sure that Austen's partial 1817 manuscript wouldn't go unfinished yet again. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Welsh, who says he loves the work of Jane Austen and George Eliot, creates a world more real than a great many worlds we enter in today’s fiction. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He is going to talk and recite some more, but Austen does not tax the reader with what he says. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z “Race relations were a real thing and very complex in 18th-century Britain,” said Devoney Looser, author of “The Making of Jane Austen” and an Arizona State University professor. Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Was Stillman such an incorrigible optimist that he was willing to overrule Austen on the question of love? Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z She maintains the reader or viewer who comes to Austen via sequels and adaptations may find modern expectations "may not be realised by the original novel". Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z But Jane Austen didn’t hold a high-profile position in publishing, as well: Jackson, the author with a splashy debut on her hands, is also a vice-president and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z She is also a self-described nerd, participating in several subcultures in addition to Star Wars, including Jane Austen, Steampunk and Harry Potter. A Wedding With an Undeniable Force 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z On the walls hang memorials to many members of the Austen family. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z That possibility was floated in the 2013 crime novel “The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen,” by Lindsay Ashford, who claimed to have found clues in Austen’s writing and other sources hinting at arsenic poisoning. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I used to have an elaborate fantasy about getting to be Jane Austen’s tour guide to the modern world. Alison Bechdel: By the Book 2012-07-26T14:36:01Z I'm not doing this to flip Jane Austen the bird. Q&A: Writing the New 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' 2010-04-19T09:05:00Z The feeling seemed to be that while quirky period pieces featuring feisty, sassy, operatically emotional heroines are OK for “Bridgerton” and “Dickinson,” two recent streaming series, they are not OK for Jane Austen. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z People have really strong opinions about Jane Austen. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z In academic circles, Austen is considered a classic, along with Dickens, Hardy and others. In Defense of Jane Austen. Also Zebras. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z A perusal of Austen fan sites reveals an abundance of stories with titles like Darcy Meets His Match and The Education of Miss Bennet. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z Raised on Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, she cuts her insufficiently amorous dates short and opines on the death of romance. ‘The New Romantic’ Review: Experiments With Love and Money 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The show’s curators, led by Austen Barron Bailly, asked themselves what other medium was facing the challenge of conveying information by images when Benton was starting out, and their answer was: cinema. The Bump and the Hollow of Thomas Hart Benton 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z And I actually found him more interesting this season, because in Season 1, he was kind of a classically silly Austen character, this hypochondriac who just talked a lot and was self-involved. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Yet that steadfast loyalty to Austen is also the biggest hurdle the book faces. Novels That Freshen Up Some Well-Worn Classics 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z His closest relationship was with Austen, who in Parini’s book emerges as a thoroughly winning character. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the title of Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” was styled with a period, much to the chagrin of grammar-conscious copy editors. The Curious Case of the Strangely Similar Movie Titles 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z When Jane Austen declared that "three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on", it was inconceivable that she should not have a Mr Elton lurking in the background. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z Her gradual disintegration has been happening so subtly over the course of the series that, to borrow a phrase from Austen, we were in the middle of it before we knew it had begun. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z James tells The Associated Press during a telephone interview that the new book allows her to indulge two great passions: Austen and crime stories. P.D. James writes Jane Austen sequel 2011-10-12T18:47:08Z A half-dozen or so Austen adaptations, both for film and for television, were released in the mid-1990s, causing McGrath to note that “first there is no Jane Austen and then it’s raining Jane Austen.” ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z St. Nicholas is a simple medieval structure, little changed from the Austen years, save for the addition of a Victorian steeple. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Susanne Simpson, the executive producer of “Masterpiece,” said that one of the attractions of “Sanditon,” was that it was “a little different” from the Austen adaptations the series did previously. PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z You know, Jane Austen was not a shabby writer. "I like weird things": Alicia Silverstone on her career, from "Clueless" to new film "Bad Therapy" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In fleet scenes, Austen captures the excitement of rehearsal, the frisson of “showmance” and the paradox of theater as both liberating and distorting. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “The Wonder of Will” continues with “America’s Shakespeare,” opening April 7, and “Will and Jane: Shakespeare, Austen and the Cult of Celebrity,” opening in August. The playwright’s the thing 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Jane Austen never finished her manuscript for “Sanditon,” so this is part adaptation, part patchwork quilt. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The Real Jane Austen similarly provides us with constantly surprising glimpses of her. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z I went into Russian and French and German literature and then did Russian and French literature at Oxford, so I wasn’t a scholar of Jane Austen by any means. Kate Beckinsale on Her 'Early Feminist Fighter' in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But Ms. Nichols’s centered, nuanced performance gives her an emotional transparency that allows us to see that in Austen the quiet suffer as intensely as, and perhaps more sincerely than, the loud. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z In his biography, titled Memoir of Jane Austen, he described her as "a clear brunette with a rich colour". 'Definitive' Austen work for sale 2013-10-31T12:42:16Z This is the work, note, of Austen's favourite poet. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z "This is an installation that celebrates the imagination of Andrew Davies rather than that of Jane Austen." Mr Darcy surfaces as statue in London lake 2013-07-08T13:18:00Z One intriguing task for translators of Austen has been how to describe the 19th-century British food featured in the many convivial sequences that shed light on characters through their social interaction. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z I watched a whole series of Jane Austen adaptations with my daughter in preparation for filming. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z She said that all romantic comedies were essentially mash-ups of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," but Ephron injected the formula with a populist, somewhat sentimental flavor. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z There are several men in Austen's fiction who "want" a wife for reasons beyond financial calculation. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Such time travel is on a lot of Austen fans’ minds in this year of global celebration of the 200th anniversary of “Pride and Prejudice.” ‘What Jane Saw’ Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans 2013-05-24T12:00:01Z “When you read Jane Austen, your brain is fired up in different ways than when you read anything else.” Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z And don’t even start on all the Austen fan Twitter accounts. The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The display consists of one of the 11 booklets that formed “The Watsons,” a novel that Austen started and then abandoned sometime between 1804 and 1805. Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Goes on Exhibit 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Austen’s novels, for example, are littered with dry asides about the inconveniences borne by smart men who, “from some unaccountable bias in favor of beauty,” fetter themselves to trivial women. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The portrait of Austen was commissioned in 1870 by the author's nephew, James Edward Austen Leigh, and based on a drawing by Austen's sister. Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Yet the programme should also show any lover of Austen's novels that dancing was at the heart of her stories. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Grabby nonfiction for those passionate about everything from eating to Jane Austen. Motherlode Blog: Books to Give Your Mother (and Yourself) 2013-05-09T14:04:29Z I ask Dr Austen for some advice on how to avoid repeating my mistakes. How to win friends – and keep them 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z In the British Library, you can see Jane Austen’s writing desk. Suzy Nakamura Informs Herself With ‘The Dollop,’ Sister Wendy and Her Mother’s Diary 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “I think Austen was really reflecting on her time.” PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z These lovely relics were another reminder that, as Jane Austen wrote in “Persuasion,” “a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see the charms in the immediate environs of Lyme.” Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “I think people don’t often realise that a lot of the joy of Jane Austen is that these books are funny,” he says. Sauce and sensuality: TV drama adds extra mischief to Austen 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Her Bank of England win has been slightly dented by the odd choice of Austen quote on the new note: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading." What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? 2013-07-27T21:15:01Z They lived together for 53 years, until Austen died in 2003. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z The effort to achieve “objectivity” or “detachment”—“to sound as cool as Jane Austen or as Olympian as Shakespeare”—was pointless, could only “betray our own reality.” Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Photograph: Corbis Endless Jane Austen film adaptations have given us the idea that the Regency was a classy, pretty, palatable period of history. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z Specifically, the Dungeons & Dragons nerds, the Magic: The Gathering nerds, the Jane Austen nerds, the “Star Wars” nerds and “Star Trek” nerds and, yes, there is a difference. ‘Growing up, we were the weird ones’: The wizarding, mermaiding, cosplaying haven of Epic Nerd Camp 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Kelp farmer Sarah Redmond looks like she “had stepped straight out of a Jane Austen novel” but is clearly more of a powerhouse than a chatterbox: a driving spirit behind the local development of aquaculture. ‘Seaweed Chronicles’ Review: A Fragile World at the Water’s Edge 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It's Austen's boldness and her witty fury we respond to, not the piety her relatives posthumously attributed to her. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Austen divided “Pride and Prejudice” into many short chapters, some just a few pages long, and Sittenfeld has followed that format in her much longer book, so that “Eligible” has a full 181 chapters. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Austen wrote “The Watsons,” an unfinished and unpublished novel, in 1804. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z When you read Austen carefully enough, my professor would say, every sentence is mystifying. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z A few days ago, I was standing behind the counter at Books Are Magic, my two-month-old bookstore, and a woman came up to the register with a copy of Jane Austen’s “Emma.” Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Try "Emi," which mimics Austen's rhythms and quirks, but injects just enough self-aware modernity into the mix: The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It prompted The Los Angeles Times to ask its readers, “Do you want a XXX Jane Austen? Vote in our poll.” Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It feels like Austen's private joke about a man who recites rather than converses. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z The slim collection of novels that Jane Austen wrote before her death at 41 in July 1817 focus on relationships, not current events. Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Austen, declares Shields, exploits “an arch, incontrovertible amiability” to conceal “a ferocious and persistent moral anger.” In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z You don’t have to convince me — I am a devoted Jane Austen fan. Of course your Emma is different: That’s what all the Jennifer parents thought, too 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “I don’t think Jane Austen wrote it like that,” a cameraman said. PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z It is unlikely to trouble them that Lovett’s Austen is less a portrait of the writer than a medley of her greatest hits. Book review: ‘First Impressions,’ by Charlie Lovett “Austenland” is silliness without charm; something the real Miss Austen would never countenance. ‘Austenland’: a pale replica of a literary romantic comedy 2013-08-29T20:35:44Z "For the severely shell shocked he selected Jane Austen." Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z Fowler is best known for her novel "The Jane Austen Book Club." Karen Fowler novel wins PEN/Faulkner prize 2014-04-02T16:49:58Z The purchase price was the equivalent of 16,450 of the £10 notes featuring an image of Austen based on the portrait that will be introduced in Britain in 2017. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Portrait Sold for $270,000 2013-12-10T20:18:38Z The author of "A Jane Austen Education" will discuss his book at 7 p.m. New books on Jane Austen: lessons for the ages from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 2011-05-04T19:28:04Z The annual celebration of all things Austen is extra special this year, as 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death on July 18, 1817. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Austen’s was even and elegant and almost alarmingly legible, as bright and immediate as a voice. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z None of the original drafts of Austen's completed novels survived, with the exception of discarded chapters from Persuasion and Lady Susan. Jane Austen manuscript auctioned for almost ?1m 2011-07-14T18:26:22Z Austen will read from her poetry at 7:30 p.m. Local books: Pacific Northwest identity, fantasy and a reissue of Robert Michael Pyle's memoir 2011-04-18T21:49:04Z Expat life there unfolds in bucolic suburbs whose names, like Hurlingham and Lavington, recall minor characters in a Jane Austen novel. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home It's a sad truth that while Austen's novels were rich with romantic entanglements, her life was not. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It strikes me as a very 18th-century portrait of women, an elaborate Jane Austen joke, where they're constantly fussing about accomplishments and whether the flowers on the piano match the candlesticks on the armoire. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z Speaking of Shakespeare: His work provided for one of the two best evenings of the trip; the other made possible by Jane Austen. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z And when it comes to Jane Austen, there's only so many stories you can tell. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In the film versions of “Pride and Prejudice” the music jumps and swells at all the right moments, heightening the tension and romance of that classic Jane Austen novel. Bells and Whistles for a Few E-Books 2011-08-23T21:59:39Z When I clicked on the fanfiction link at NSYNCworld.com, I found a place where writers were treated like the Jane Austens and Stephen Kings. Can "stanning” be a form of recovery? Healing and trauma in fandom communities 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The book is a first edition copy of Emma which Austen presented to her friend Anne Sharp, the inspiration for Mrs Weston in the novel. Austen novel sells for ?325,000 2010-03-31T12:37:00Z Because no story about Jane Austen is complete without a knowing wink to her most famous line, we are compelled by Janeites to begin with this: The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Prior to starting this, I read every single Austen novel. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z I am enamored with the Jane Austen world. Zazie Beetz Grew Up With Shel Silverstein and Nina Simone 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z There’s confidence but no condescension in the relationship between McCall Smith and Austen. A modern retelling of ‘Emma,’ by Alexander McCall Smith 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s not a happy story, but it’s an important one, and Austen, a journalist who frequently writes about urban planning and housing issues, tells it expertly and well. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Jailed for four months — awaiting what became known as the Trial of the Thirty — he taught himself English and translated Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” into French. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z These days, continuation literature - as it has been hailed - falls into two camps: works that are licensed by writers' estates and those that, like Austen, are in the public domain. Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z You could see that dancing well was a test, and that when Austen's heroines take the floor with the men they love it is in order to perform well together. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Until they do, Davies will content himself with the fact that his 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice continues to be celebrated as the finest Austen adaptation of them all. Sauce and sensuality: TV drama adds extra mischief to Austen 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Speaking of Austen, he believes that if she were alive to read the “Fifty Shades of Grey” books, she would die all over again. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The sampler, which is in a private collection, is dated 1787, the year Austen turned 12. ArtsBeat: Bodleian Library to Display Jane Austen Needlework and Disputed Portrait 2012-02-27T19:45:06Z Years ago, I visited Jane Austen’s home in Chawton, England, and left feeling I had tapped into the source of her prose. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z Ms. Bawden’s descriptive gifts were perhaps nowhere more evident than in two later books: the novel “Circles of Deceit,” a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1987, and the memoir “Dear Austen,” published in 2005. Nina Bawden, Author of ‘Carrie’s War,’ Dies at 87 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z There's something very witty about her, and quite fresh, although I realised watching it last night that it's really contemporary Jane Austen. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z After Mr. Austen’s death, Mr. Vidal lived alone in declining health himself. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Jane Austen may be too likable or lovable for her own good. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Tomalin, the esteemed English biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others, writes briskly and sensitively here of her own life. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Austen allows Lydia to be free from repentance. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z I wrong-footed Jane Austen; I was in a total funk as a college sophomore and read the wrong book. Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Austen is always big on people being good listeners,” she says. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z The class, she reassured us, wouldn’t be wasted on Austen fanatics. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He ran the university radio station, directed one of his own plays and acted in a production of “Pride and Prejudice,” a theatrical adaptation of the Jane Austen classic. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z In Austen's original novel fragment, Miss Lambe is introduced in conversation only but never really interacts with the characters. PBS' "Sanditon" brings Jane Austen's racy and racist subtext into the open 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The family tree and webs of relationships are more complex, and Austen’s critique of the societal pressures that suffocated women, along with the class prejudice, is especially searing. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It is a gorgeous, telegenic enactment, but also reveals the conventions on which Austen's narrative relies. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z This year it's expanding its celebration of all things Austen with the new Jane Austen Day as an unofficial, worldwide, social-networked event. Jane Austen gets her own day (Dec. 16) 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z But here they are again, fewer than 12 months later, alternating high-octane Austen with a loose-jointed production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” a play notorious for thwarting the most accomplished thespians. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z As any informed scholar knows, Austen’s parents agreed to the adoption by Austen’s cousin Thomas Knight and his wife, wealthy and childless, who were seeking an heir from inside the family. What Lorrie Moore Doesn’t Know About Jane Austen … and Other Letters 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z If this was Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, unquestionably this house would have been preserved. Conan Doyle expert mounts legal challenge to preserve author's home 2010-07-19T16:01:00Z As sly and winning as the novel is stylistically, it’s not hard to imagine the sort of substantive riposte to it that Austen might make. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Based on an early, little-known epistolary novella called “Lady Susan,” “Love & Friendship” is a reminder that Austen was not only a brilliant architect of screen-friendly plots but also a very funny writer. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I once knew a Jane Austen scholar who emphasized that seemingly accessible author’s unknowability. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z In Austen’s universe, the gravest crises may be moral, but these moral failings induce suffering. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In Austen's novels, seaside resorts are places for flirtations and engagements, attachments and elopements, love and sex. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Little by little, Byrne gives us the contents of Austen's mind, which prove to be more varied than the popular image of her narrow provincial horizons suggests. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z And in early July it will sponsor a writers’ retreat in Edale, England, in the Peak District, which inspired Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. All Around Town, Stories Well Told 2011-03-03T21:25:10Z Where her work contains allusions to the human form, Austen’s depicts the body more directly, although such imagery is submerged into the overall composition, and in only some pictures. In the galleries: Artists illustrate the evolving principles of geometric painting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z This season I found that the language for the declarations were eerily reminiscent of Austen. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z And, of course, why Jane Austen is so important to them, the authors in question. New books on Jane Austen: lessons for the ages from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 2011-05-04T19:28:04Z I heard at one of the screenings, Sebastian said that he and Austen sort of married up. "It's a pro move": What Leslie Bibb learned from acting vets, from Robert De Niro to Carol Burnett 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Austen was distressed by the demands of the prince regent, a man she’d long despised for his famed womanizing. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Channeling a bit of Jane Austen meets Cinderella, Rachel and Nick's happily ever after ends in a sincere yet simple proposal, free of the glitz and affluence that underscores much of their time in Singapore. The new rom com fantasy: A happily-ever-after based on equality and humanity 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z A plastic 10-pound note featuring the author of "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen, is due to appear next year. New British bank notes fall foul of vegetarians 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The women of “Love and Friendship,” an upcoming Whit Stillman-directed Jane Austen adaptation that she’ll appear in, would probably prefer “courtship.” Chloë Sevigny at Forty 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “We have done a lot of Austen adaptations — I knew our audiences would love ‘Sanditon,’ and they did,” she said in a video call. ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Though it was clearly a spoof, Mr. Winters took the job seriously, and closely studied Austen’s plotting and character development. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The contemporary publishing model did not work in Austen’s favor. When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Again, he is well aware of this: when described as "the English Philip Roth", he likes to call himself "the Jewish Jane Austen". Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z Netflix’s adaptation of “Persuasion” is the latest in failed attempts to please fans of Jane Austen. Trevor Noah Still Doesn’t See Any Good Arguments Against Gay Marriage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z This is a somewhat harsh, unappealing introduction to the character, whom Austen describes as “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition.” ‘Emma’ Review: Back on the Manor, but Still Clueless 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Hamill, 33, says she plans to adapt all six Austen novels for the stage — probably in the order of their writing, the better to chart her own progress against Austen’s. A Madcap ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ Alfresco in the Hudson Valley 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s no secret to any observant reader that Austen frequently drew on her social and political context, usually to critique it. Was Jane Austen a ‘secret radical’? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "Jane Austen is quietly waiting in the wings." Jane Austen 'waiting in wings' to feature on UK banknotes 2013-06-25T12:04:43Z Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the film is based, followed swiftly. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Her essays introduced me to Fay Weldon and more significantly, Jane Austen, when I was a teenager. Did Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally” ruin male/female friendship? 2012-06-27T15:15:00Z You might suspect that with Austen — a white middle-class British woman writing two hundred years ago — it would be all about identifying differences in a men’s prison classroom. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He has thought a lot about Jane Austen and George Eliot, worked out how they did things, and says George Moore's novel Esther Waters really hit him emotionally after he taught it to one group. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z PD James: 'I wanted to combine my two enthusiasms? writing detective fiction and reading Jane Austen.' PD James: you ask the questions 2012-05-25T16:29:17Z In Austen’s day, an original manuscript was often discarded after a book went to print. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Garai is also known for her screen roles in period dramas such as Atonement, Glorious 39, I Capture the Castle, and the TV series of Jane Austen's Emma. News junkie 2011-07-19T07:24:39Z Dr. Grant exists to be dispensed with; in the end, he is nothing to Austen and her characters but an administrative hurdle. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Those factors together made teaching Austen to sex offenders incredibly difficult and deeply moving. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Which is pretty much every Austen book, minus the pithy quotes. The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z In particular his coyness about the status of his partner, Howard Austen, looked like old-fashioned social shame, though it can hardly have been that. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that many a writer in want of a good romantic comedy plot has turned to Jane Austen. Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Grady said she was more than happy to cater to the crowds of foreign tourists pouring past her roadside stall, which displayed hardback editions of Jane Austen, “Winnie-the-Pooh” and “Just William” stories. Kitsch vs. Curios: Tourist Trade Threatens Character of London’s Portobello Market 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z It is that dollop of wisdom that elevates Austen from a simple comedy of manners. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z I had never had my Jane Austen phase or Edith Wharton phase or even George Eliot phase, I associated those writers with puberty, or “courting,” both things that repelled me. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z She was drawn to string-band music when she went to a contra dance while at Oberlin, expecting the English country dances she had read about in her beloved Jane Austen novels. A Solo Spotlight for a Powerful Voice 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z And which Austen character would he want leading America in a nuclear showdown? Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z But in fact, Austen has a long history of being cited in political debates, sometimes on opposite sides of a question. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The latest film adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" is a visual feast of color, pattern and texture. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z And if director Autumn de Wilde's oversaturated, impossibly sunny new adaptation of the classic bears more than a passing resemblance to its Beverly Hills-based Austen ancestor "Clueless," the homage is an effective one. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z She calls Austen's writing "lovely", extols the "wonderful" work of her fellow critics, snuggles up to her "sisterly circle" of fellow scholars in Oxford, and gives smoochy thanks to her "dearest husband" for his support. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z In its second episode, “Poldark” explodes with action, forbidden romance, double-crossing, clandestine meetings, a duel, and yes, Jane Austen fans, there’s even a country dance. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z The town also is host to a yearly Austen pilgrimage. Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z She’s more like an Oscar Wilde character than a Jane Austen heroine. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The letter is being sold as part of a Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Photographs sale - other lots include first editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Lewis Carroll fame woes go on sale 2014-02-18T12:54:29Z But that’s like saying all of Jane Austen is about women dating in mansions. “Mad Men’s” great influence: A show’s secrets, hidden in plain sight 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Before paying my respects to Austen, I walked through a heavy wooden door in the north transept and up a creaking flight of stairs to the cathedral library. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “I bought the eyeglasses in 2008, for our first Jane Austen Evening, and the prescription is now out-of-date, so the world may be blurry, but I look sharp.” Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The auction house Sotheby's is selling the only major remaining Jane Austen manuscript. VIDEO: Rare Austen novel under the hammer 2011-07-14T06:00:53Z Although my mind accepted this reasoning, my heart — propelled by the Austens and Brontës of my bookshelf — rebelled. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Gossip gallops in Bedlam’s invigorating stage version of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” which runs through Dec. 21 at the Sheen Center. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The characters are articulate, intelligent, confident, and capable of deception and self-deception on a scale worthy of Jane Austen. My Night with Maud 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z There is also a brief mention of Miss Lambe, described by Austen as “a young West Indian of large fortune, delicate in health”. Sauce and sensuality: TV drama adds extra mischief to Austen 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z The adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, which has earned $1.47 million so far, will broaden its theatrical footprint nationwide next weekend. Box Office: 'Invisible Man' Emerges With $29 Million Opening Weekend 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z If we really are all doomed, wouldn't it be more comforting to read Jane Austen? Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z The BBC is planning a television special titled “Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?,” which will investigate the illustration and Austen’s life. ArtsBeat Blog: Author Says She's Found a Portrait of Jane Austen 2011-12-05T15:56:52Z Of the modern take on Mr. Darcy, Austen quips: “You made him the heartthrob with your films. My business is with girls.” Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z How difficult is it to give nods to Austen and yet not lift from her directly? "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “If Austen did develop cataracts,” as the glasses indicate, Dr. Tuppen wrote, one likely cause is “accidental poisoning from a heavy metal such as arsenic.” A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z I like to think that if Austen was writing now, she might have created something very like this. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z People with hearts set on spending Christmas Day inhaling new Netflix series "Bridgerton" would best be served resisting the urge to compare and contrast its with strict Jane Austen interpretations. "Bridgerton" is Netflix's randy costume confection that you'll want to put in your face straightaway 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z “Henry became a next-generation Austen publicly supporting a political commitment to abolish slavery across the globe.” Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z As a senior in college, I took a class on Jane Austen—a great class with, it must be said, a weird vibe. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Again and again, following the trail suggested by her objects, finding directions out by indirections, Byrne opens out Austen's story with a novelist's persistent probing of the evidence. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice World premiere of Lindsay Warren Baker & Amanda Jacobs’ musical based on the classic novel about love and courtship in early 19th-century England. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z I also love Jane Austen’s magnificent secondary characters, like Miss and Mrs. Bates, Mr. Collins, the ones who make you giggle and cringe. Emma Straub: By the Book 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Paula Byrne, author of The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, told the Daily Telegraph this week that Austen's novels were prescribed to shell shock victims of the first world war. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z It is a book that Jane Austen or Henry James could have written. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “The Jane Austen Society” is no Jane Austen novel; its dialogue is not as crisp, its pace a bit flabby. Review | ‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z What connects Doctor Who and Jane Austen, outside of their quintessential Britishness? Doctor Who, Jane Austen, and the What it Means to Complain Online 2013-08-16T16:52:05Z At least immersed in Jane Austen’s world, if only for a few hours, I know how it ends. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Among the myriad passionate readers of Austen, who seem to produce dozens of new books about her every year, Cohen occupies a special place. Review | A writer spent years reading only the work of Jane Austen. She learned a lot about herself. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z In 1984 an Oxford tutor employed by military hospitals to advise on reading matter for the war-wounded selected the works of Jane Austen for the severely shell shocked. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z Byrne's first book, Jane Austen and the Theatre, whose very title seemed almost oxymoronic, presented the novelist and the woman from an unexpected perspective. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z The Jane Austen family correspondence is from her mother's family, the Leighs of Adlestrop. Jane Austen family letters, 'Wicked Ned' works acquired by Huntington 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Its tone, then and now, owes nearly as much to Jane Austen as to “Dynasty.” New York, ‘Gossip Girl’ Loves You, Again 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z The usual Austen players are there, but “Persuasion,” Austen’s last completed novel, is more than an amalgamation of tropes and themes from her earlier works; it’s a natural progression from “Emma” and “Sense and Sensibility.” Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “It was impossible for a woman to go about alone,” Virginia Woolf wrote of Jane Austen in “A Room of One’s Own.” On Eating Alone in Paris 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It is that panorama that some compare with Jane Austen’s description of the fictional Pemberley, home of Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice.” In England, a trio of stately homes illuminates a bygone age 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The solution to this is following the lead of Jane Austen and prefacing every opinion with “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Those taking part can also visit the current exhibition at the museum, “Street Types: Turn of the Century Portraiture by Alice Austen.” Spare Times for May 10-16 2013-05-09T22:30:41Z William Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mr Collins is one of Austen's most brilliant creations, and his proposal to Elizabeth Bennet is a comic tour de force. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z Back in the nave I reached the final stop in my tour — a slab of black marble marking the grave of Jane Austen. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z We probably don't need to do anything more than mention in passing the recent fad for inserting zombies, sea monsters and vampires into Jane Austen and Brontë works. Catcher in the Rye sequel might just be a good idea 2011-01-13T13:07:46Z Austen's opening aphorism – "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man in possession of a fortune must be in need of a wife" – is delivered as a cheeky aside by Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Even some humanists who admire Mr. Chwe’s work suggest that when it comes to appreciating Austen, social scientists may be the clueless ones. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z Yet Austen’s sex offenders are punished lightly, if at all, generally by being stuck in unhappy marriages. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Though never far from cultural ubiquity, the works of Jane Austen are having a real moment thanks to the pandemic. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Most of what we know directly about Austen's musicianship relies on the memories of her niece Caroline, who was only 12 when Austen died. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z The scene is one of the most memorable in the canon of Austen adaptations – as no such meeting appears in the book. Finally: Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy Immortalized as a Statue 2013-07-10T15:21:59Z “Pride and Prejudice” at Primary Stages is not your typical Jane Austen dramatization. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Austen was buried in Washington in a plot Mr. Vidal had purchased in Rock Creek Cemetery. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z We bout to get Jane Austen up in here. Perspective | Six rom-coms that are perfect for quarantine, now that we’re in ‘Groundhog Day’ 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Of course there are the bonnets and britches of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens – but lets keep things a bit more recent. Six to Watch: Modern novels on TV 2010-05-21T11:39:00Z Having done this show – a continuation of Jane Austen, which has then become its own beast after some unexpected setbacks – were there any lessons that you learned along the way? "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z And if the Abbott biography gets you thinking about the character and destiny of cities, you might want to settle in with Ben Austen’s “High-Risers,” about the ill-fated Cabrini-Green projects in Chicago. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z I had been thinking of updating my website with some information about my forthcoming novel, “First Impressions,” which included a storyline of Jane Austen visiting a fictional estate called Busbury Park. My brush with the Holy Grail 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Any decent female in a Jane Austen novel would have done that. The famous and famously vain men of Carly Simon's 'Boys in the Trees' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Jane Austen, once invited to visit the over-the-top splendours of Carlton House by George himself, remained distinctly unimpressed. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z Jane Austen first published modestly as "A Lady", but double initials are a common camouflage. From the Brontë sisters to JK Rowling, a potted history of pen names 2013-07-14T13:54:00Z "I don't think there is a problem getting people to pick up Austen anymore," he says. Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z And we're not lacking for Jane Austen adaptations, with or without zombies. Great Gatsby: what high school book should Baz Luhrmann take on next? Open thread 2013-05-15T16:02:44Z Fans of Jane Austen may be forgiven for collapsing in a heap in 2017 after all the worldwide celebrations paying homage to the 200th anniversary of her death. Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s just one of the regular events around the country that unite both hard-core Janeites and period dance enthusiasts under the Austen brand. Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z For example, Lester finds a long history of the use of “they” to describe a person who doesn’t fit into one gender or another, with examples dating to Shakespeare and Jane Austen. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z He went from the Chinese ensemble comedy, "Eat Drink Man Woman," to the world of Jane Austen in "Sense and Sensibility" and the '70s sexual revolution in "The Ice Storm." Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She said that while Austen could have ingested arsenic through medication, other elements of the British Library’s biographical analysis seemed less persuasive. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z “The film was made with a massive amount of love and attention to the source material and a really openhearted respect for Jane Austen,” she said. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The auction house says the draft for "The Watsons" is the earliest surviving manuscript for a novel by Austen that was probably written in 1804. Early Jane Austen manuscript to go on auction 2011-05-23T18:22:58Z “American visitors are known to visit specific locations related to entertainment and literary heritage; Christie, Shakespeare and Austen continue to inspire generations to visit various locales.” Trending: Inspired by TV, Trips an Anglophile Would Love 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z And it is not lost on the scholars in attendance that Austen is currently experiencing a revival of interest similar to the one Shakespeare saw 200 years after his death. The Jane Austen convention’s blissful alternate universe 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It has been that way always, ever since childhood when — like a minor character out of Jane Austen — accompanying a friendless young cousin, I made regular pilgrimages to a stuffy resort in the Pennsylvania mountains. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z When I approached the hallowed shrine of Jane Austen to write Miss Austen Regrets, based on the last years of the author's life, I thought it would be easier because everyone was dead. U Be Dead's inconvenient truths 2010-09-01T20:59:00Z The draft of “The Watsons” went to an unidentified buyer; Sotheby’s said it is the only major manuscript by Austen still in private hands. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Manuscript Sold for $1.6 Million 2011-07-14T17:06:59Z This is an important backdrop for considering the ways Austen’s novels handle lawbreakers and wrong-doers. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jane Austen wrote her great novels in the corner of the living room in her family home. An Advocate for Classical Music and Women 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The singer is an Austen fan who already owns a first edition of Persuasion, the author’s final completed novel. British Museum Gets Anonymous Donation To Buy Jane Austen’s Ring Back From Kelly Clarkson 2013-08-14T09:45:32Z If you want to get all Jane Austen about it, which of course you do. Bodice-rippers! How period drama went from buttoned up to sexed up 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The proof of their mediocrity is that admirers of Austen or Mr. McEwan will find no reason for complaint. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z It's a question worth asking when literary period movies are being churned out: we've recently been inundated with Dickens, Austen and Brontë, not to mention another Anna Karenina. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z Austen's achievement depended on her penetrating intelligence, which saw so clearly; and on her strong instinct for the rhythms of story form. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z When female authors get nods, they are troubling ones: Emily Dickinson, whose name Leonard invokes to taunt Martin, and Jane Austen, to whom Kate alludes at the beginning of a short story. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z The stories Austen tells are always about prejudice overcome and proud, premature conclusions bruisingly revised. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Authors and playwrights who have grappled with Austen say that the challenge of adaptation is to keep within the contours of her worldview while being clear about what is up for grabs. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society on Tuesday, Mr. Naipaul, 78, derided Jane Austen, saying he “couldn’t possibly share her sentimental ambitions, her sentimental sense of the world,” according to the Guardian. ArtsBeat: A Rant of His Own: V.S. Naipaul Takes on Women Writers 2011-06-03T18:54:56Z I did an erotic version of “Phantom of the Opera,” I did erotic versions of Jane Austen’s popular books. Bigfoot, sexy? Erotica author explains 2014-01-23T00:00:00Z Photograph: Getty Images Some still think of Jane Austen as a modest country mouse, wedded to the quiet sameness of village life. New website displays celebrities of Jane Austen's youth 2013-05-24T10:41:54Z Say you are designing a jacket for a new edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z Her last published book, "Dear Austen," dealt with the crash - which killed seven people and injured more than 70 - and its aftermath. 'Carrie's War' author Nina Bawden dies at 87 2012-08-22T20:16:04Z Over the course of seven years, “through the joys and troubles of love and motherhood and the grief of a major loss,” Austen’s novels become Cohen’s “enduring companion.” New in Paperback: ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ and ‘Agent Sonya’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Austen had apparently been selected because her works described a world of social stability and order. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z Bennett illuminatingly imagines the Queen being at first daunted by Jane Austen: so far distant in terms of rank, she is unable to appreciate the – to her – relatively small social divisions between Austen's characters. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – review 2012-05-29T11:00:22Z But while Amy Smith’s romantic story may be unique, her use of Austen as a self-help manual is part of a much larger trend. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z And let us not even speak of those unnervingly popular zombie and vampire treatments of the Austen oeuvre! Love Jane Austen? Seattle improv show may be your cup of tea 2013-01-18T22:22:14Z A ring which once belonged to Jane Austen is likely to stay in the UK after a museum dedicated to the author received an anonymous donation of £100,000. VIDEO: Boost for Jane Austen ring campaign 2013-08-13T19:11:18Z To continue the franchise, Quirk decided to revisit its Austen miscreation to tell the tale of how it all began. Q&A: Writing the New 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' 2010-04-19T09:05:00Z Austen, for example, derives much of her signature comedy by foregrounding her heroines’ romances against the mundane frustrations and misunderstandings of ordinary social life. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z One of his assignments was “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters,” which imported giant lobsters and man-eating jellyfish into Jane Austen’s Regency romance. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Contemporary scholars have also made opposing political arguments about Austen. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z As a critic and author, Mr. Bayley was acclaimed for his dissections of Goethe and Pushkin as well as of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In his writing on, for example, Alfred Hitchcock’s films and Jane Austen’s novels, Mr. Zizek has proven to be an acute analyst of the ways that plots reach their destinations through misrecognition and error. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Her first chapter focuses on the silhouette commissioned by Austen's childless uncle Thomas Knight to commemorate his adoption of Jane's elder brother Edward, when the boy was 13. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z At the front desk of the Hotel Union Oye, a receptionist in a frilly frock suggestive of a Jane Austen novel handed us a key and a metal bowl holding three garlic cloves. Exploring Norway’s Fjords by Car and Boat 2012-06-29T16:47:27Z “She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath.” P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 Which is all to the good; pecs were never really Austen’s thing. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Le Faye said that she understood the desire to see excitement in Austen’s fairly quiet life. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z If Austen was indeed poisoned, it was likely accidental. Did Jane Austen die of arsenic poisoning? Maybe. Maybe not. 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: The Kobal Collection The drama of Austen's fiction is shaped around the very protocol of the ball. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z This style, which became the hallmark of the novel beginning in the 19th century with Jane Austen, evolved because it satisfies our “intense interest in other people’s secret thoughts and motivations,” Ms. Vermeule said. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z Jane Austen might not recognize her Elizabeth Bennet, here cast as a woman of African descent. In the galleries: Many ways to express ‘Light & Movement’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And this is no less true of Jane Austen, left, and George Eliot than it is of Tolstoy and Dickens. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Austen's allure is in the exacting set of rules society of her time imposes on courtship; it takes so little to sully a decent lady's reputation. Why "Bridgerton" and "Sanditon" dialed back the sex – and came out stronger for it 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Presumably having Aurora-Borealised to their hearts’ content last episode, Keeley and Jack mostly limit themselves to coffee this time around, even if those coffees involve signed Jane Austen first editions and jewelry-filled pastry. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Restaurant Week 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that few books are as beloved as Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," which was published on January 28, 1813. 7 people who hated Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z But I did leave the prison classroom that day hoping that this father would someday be able to have meaningful conversations with his daughter about Austen. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jane Austen is a great way to regain your dignity in testing romantic circumstances. Fiction prescription: why libraries make you happy 2013-02-08T18:36:01Z Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, a supporter of Francis, countered by Tweeting: “He’s making sure that they engage with him, not treat him like a sacred relic. He’s the Vicar of Christ, not a Roman emperor.” To kiss pope's hand - or not - enters the Catholic culture wars 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Or, rather, read them in your teens for the stories, for one experience, and then later to appreciate Austen’s genius, rewarding both times. Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet I came to love these loquacious, nutty women, who Stillman seems to have plucked from Jane Austen and rolled in equal parts P.G. Damsels in Distress: Heathers, Without Cruel Intentions 2012-04-05T10:45:50Z The title was a reference to a story Jane Austen wrote for her older sister, Cassandra. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Austen wrote “The Watsons” in 1804, a year before her father died and after the early versions of what eventually became “Sense and Sensibility,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Northanger Abbey.” ArtsBeat: A Reunion of Sorts: Two Pieces of Unpublished Austen Novel Are Both in New York 2011-06-10T14:33:42Z The novel pokes fun at creative writing as an academic discipline, yet “Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden” might have borrowed a few more tricks from that trade. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z When it comes to Jane Austen, marriage or an engagement is the desirable end game for her protagonists. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Austen makes buffoons of her characters, but she never dabbles in cruelty. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z “Fire Island,” which debuted last year on Hulu, has almost nothing in common with the traditional rom-com, despite its debt to Jane Austen. How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Rom-Com? Three Comedians Try. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z After the death of her father in 1805, Austen, her mother and sister slipped down the ladder of Bath society, and the family left the city for good in 1806. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z She is even back at Clear Comfort, in a way, because it is now the Alice Austen House museum. Review: In ‘Alice in Black and White,’ a Pioneering Photojournalist 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z True Pride and Prejudice diehards should plan a trip around the town’s Jane Austen Festival, which features a Regency costume ball. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z At Vintage, someone will do a really beautiful cover of a Jane Austen novel, and then they’ll do the movie-tie-in cover and the movie tie-in will sell like crazy. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In all the years I've been coming to the festival, there's always at least one Jane Austen show on the fringe. Edinburgh festival: day 14 on the fringe 2012-08-20T16:11:32Z Of course, as is typical in Austen, the female protagonist finally achieves her desired marital match -- the apogee of aspirations for young women of the time. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z I remember when I read Jane Austen, when I read "Emma." "I like weird things": Alicia Silverstone on her career, from "Clueless" to new film "Bad Therapy" 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z I recently saw a production of “Sense and Sensibility” by the Bedlam theater company, which injected Austen’s calm certainties with a revivifying dose of mad improvisation and physicality. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z All too often, though, the replies prove disappointing: “War and Peace,” “Ulysses,” the works of Shakespeare, the novels of Jane Austen. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The film, written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, is a contemporary take on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," with an almost-all gay male cast. Behind the scenes of "Fire Island," from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z We found this fascinating and so analyzed a body of Chinese translations of Austen's work from 1935 onwards to assess the effectiveness of the translations of food culture during Austen's era. Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Other organisations who donated included the Friends of the National Libraries, the Friends of the Bodleian and the Jane Austen Memorial Trust. Austen script sells for ?993,250 2011-07-15T07:47:25Z Like your character’s identity being in the fashion industry, Belle’s really struggling with her identity — biracial in a Jane Austen sort of land. Actresses on the power of empathy, Meryl Streep and virginity scenes 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z That celibacy, or at least drastically reduced physical contact, has been forced on so many people by this pandemic gives us all a new affinity for Austen’s young characters. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Austen may be celebrated as the quintessential novelist of manners, but her wit can be cruel and her portraits unsparing. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z A free reception on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. will celebrate the 148th anniversary of Ms. Austen’s birth. Spare Times for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:03:54Z The book begins badly, with some simplistic Shakespeare "interpretation", but gains momentum as Oatley moves on to Jane Austen and explains with enthusiasm the results of his and others' experiments on readers. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z “Some of the parallels between the development of Shakespeare 200 years ago and the celebration of Austen today surprised even us,” said Barchas, professor at the University of Texas at Austin. ‘Cult of Celebrity’ exhibition explores similarities between Shakespeare, Austen 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sothebys/EPA The only remaining privately owned fragment of a Jane Austen novel, in the author's own handwriting, has sold at auction in London for nearly £1m, three times its estimate. Jane Austen manuscript auctioned for almost ?1m 2011-07-14T18:26:22Z By selecting Sharp as the final recipient of a precious copy of “Emma,” Austen chose to favor this unlikely friend over her own brother, Sharp’s former employer. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In May 1817 Jane Austen went to Winchester for medical treatment. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “She saw people for what they are — noble and good, foolish and useless,” says Roush, who is in possession of the exacting elocution that one would expect of an Austen conference chairwoman. The Jane Austen convention’s blissful alternate universe 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Just outside, on cobblestone streets, are the house where Austen stayed before her death, which isn’t open, and the Wykeham Arms, a pub from the 1700s, a Winchester landmark and a good lunch spot. A London day trip to Winchester, England’s former royal capital 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Or Jane Austen with her girl meets boy tales and that romance of a marital happily-ever-after so thoroughly grounded in the realities of property? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Jane Austen once referred to her novels as fine brushwork on two inches of ivory, producing “little effect after much labor.” ArtsBeat: Bodleian Library to Display Jane Austen Needlework and Disputed Portrait 2012-02-27T19:45:06Z In them, Amis writes about Austen, Nabokov, Updike and many others. A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Curator Mary Guyatt said the campaign received a 100,000 pound donation from an anonymous donor and contributions from Austen fans from all over the world. Britain stops U.S. pop singer's export of Jane Austen ring 2013-09-23T12:11:17Z Yet in his sometimes laborious way, Chwe has described something that does indeed make Austen's novels complex and satisfying: she makes her characters believe in each other. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Whether these epiphanies are central to our understanding of Jane Austen seems at least questionable, but Deresiewicz's tales are certainly an entertaining and original version of literary criticism — as autobiography. New books on Jane Austen: lessons for the ages from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' 2011-05-04T19:28:04Z Each of Byrne's associative loops ventures into a wider, more disruptive, often violent world, far from the sedate parsonages in which Austen lived. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z So dialogue is as charged with implicit motives as it would be in a slice of Jane Austen or Henry James. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z The Austens themselves owned a carriage for a year or two in the late 1790s but then had to give it up. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Though she did not invent it — arguably Austen, Flaubert and Edith Wharton got there first — Woolf perfected this mode, coloring it with the anxiety of modern subjectivity. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z A light bulb went off, and the Jane Austen Film Festival, now in its fourth year, was born. The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Like many of her compatriots, Austen loathed the Prince Regent, once railing in an 1813 letter against the man whose gluttony, profligacy and infidelities scandalized the nation. Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Easy, he said with a laugh: “I would want Austen herself.” Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master’s in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mullan's What Matters in Jane Austen is a kind of concordance of their contents, broken up into chapters with headings such as "Do We Ever See the Lower Classes?" and "How Much Money Is Enough?" What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z Not a game, but a tiny library, "100 Classic Books" gathers together digital versions of works by Jane Austen, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and many others. Tuck a library of classic books into a Nintendo DS 2010-07-07T02:14:00Z Navigating its evolving rules and byways requires the nuance and skill of a Jane Austen heroine, as well as the thick skin of a politician. The Facebook Breakup 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Jory sets himself a much harder, self-directed task: theatricalize those inner feelings and tell the story in 150 minutes, but remain true to the novel in such a way that Austen fans will appreciate. Adaptation makes perfect 'Sense' 2011-03-21T22:16:58Z In the 5th Avenue Theatre’s 21st new musical production, Jane Austen enters her own novel “Pride and Prejudice,” learning to understand more about herself and the characters she’s written. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2019 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In 1848, 31 years after Austen's death, Charlotte Brontë picked up "Pride and Prejudice" on the recommendation of friend and literary critic George Henry Lewes. 7 people who hated Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Rowling is a literary magpie and first-rate synthesizer, and her stated inspirations for the Harry Potter books range from classical mythology to Jane Austen. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The land of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen still loves to read, and to talk. Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z If you’ve never cracked the spine of “Sense and Sensibility” or “Persuasion,” you may still adore this sweet, old-fashioned story — but if you do know Austen’s work, you’ll appreciate it all the more. Review | ‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “Eligible” is the latest installment of the ongoing Austen Project, which pairs six living authors with Austen’s six complete novels. How to take ‘Pride & Prejudice’ to Cincinnati 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z "Jane Austen, and that one book especially, has become a major cultural touchstone for so many people," he said. Philly book publisher the BRAAAINS! behind phenom 2010-10-15T12:16:00Z One of the most underrated aspects of Jane Austen’s writing — devoted Janeites will no doubt agree — lies in how that English spinster dealt with the damaged. Review | ‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Many characters in "Fire Island" have Austen counterparts. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The spirit of Charles Dickens, who also shows up, claims to play regular poker matches with Jane Austen in the afterlife. Only Second City would give you Dickens and Austen playing poker in the afterlife 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel appeals to the Pride and Prejudice set, but with more subtlety and sadness than most Austen films, plus a hearty heaping of rustic drudgery. Here Are the Best Movies of 2015 So Far 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Romance, gossiping into tiny tea cups, the giddy delights of winning the Regency marriage lottery — surely the only things Austen was put on this good earth for. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z After so many efforts to adapt Austen, Dickens and the Brontës, the books remain inexhaustible – daunting, dangerous, their words still more vivid than any cinematic image can hope to be. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z But it was the novelist Anna Quindlen who set the tone for the weekend with a rousing keynote address lamenting two centuries of male condescension to Austen’s seemingly small domestic dramas. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z Game theory starts with the idea of the human being as a choice-maker, and Chwe is right to think that this chimes with Austen. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Dickens looked at his friend blankly: he had, he told him, never read a word of Jane Austen. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z Jane Austen’s novels are frequently constructed around mistaken interpretations. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z Grahame-Smith's novel focuses on the romantic entanglements Austen created in the original between different social classes in 19th century England. Downton star for Austen zombie film 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Austen is scarcely parochially, provincially distant from the great historical movements of her own time; her own family was involved in the slave trade. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z A watercolor sketch of Jane Austen by her sister, Cassandra. ArtsBeat Blog: Author Says She's Found a Portrait of Jane Austen 2011-12-05T15:56:52Z Chancellor comes from impeccable stock, with a family tree that branches out to Herbert Asquith, Jane Austen, Lord Byron and Helena Bonham Carter. 'My life was chaotic' 2011-08-20T23:05:34Z Jane Austen is not an obvious ally of today’s feminist movement. In Jane Austen, fairy tales meet biting feminist critiques 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z As Austen's novel centered around a family and their many sisters, we have a family here too. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “That underlying physical constraint echoes social constraints that I think Austen was very aware of.” PBS’s Sexy ‘Sanditon’ Finishes What Jane Austen Started 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Austen likes us to notice how official mourners fail to grieve. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Austen’s connections with grubby contemporary politics are often played for pure laughs. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Jane Austen … 'Of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.' Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z "Why do I dare, a Chinese director, do Jane Austen when I still speak pigeon English?" For Ang Lee, all movies are a leap of faith 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z “Austen wrote so many different kinds of heroines in very emotionally perceptive ways that it’s easy for readers to find one they see themselves as.” Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The astringent, affectionate satires on the beau monde, for which he's best known, are informed by a humane common sense not unlike that of Jane Austen. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z The adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel also earned $1.5 million this weekend at the international box office for a global bounty of $20.9 million. 'Onward' Leads Box Office With Ho-Hum $40 Million 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The floor of Winchester’s south nave aisle, and the gravestone set into it, are, but for the wear of pilgrims’ feet, much the same as when the first mourners paid tribute to Jane Austen. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z But Michael R. Perry, a screenwriter who was at his 11th Austen evening, recalled at least one close encounter of the cross-cosplay kind a few years back. Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s not just zombies and vampires, gin and tattoos, or wet-white-shirt Darcys and Bridget Jones movies that have recast Austen as the Melissa McCarthy of classic novelists. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Let me quickly stress, though, that Mustich doesn’t neglect the usual golden oldies, such as Plato’s dialogues, Shakespeare’s plays and Jane Austen’s novels. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z While "Pride and Prejudice" remains the best-known and more dramatized Austen tale, "Sense and Sensibility" is familiar to many largely via a fine 1995 film of it directed by Ang Lee. Empire waists and tea: Austen at Book-It 2011-05-26T20:25:15Z While Turkey can be proud of its literary traditions – especially poetry heavily influenced by Persian verse forms – it is nevertheless a nation without its own Tolstoy, Flaubert or Austen. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Victoria may conjure up images from a Jane Austen novel, but that doesn’t mean your getaway has to be all tea and crumpets. Need a getaway to celebrate (or escape) the holidays? Travel like a queen to Victoria 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z I'm afraid that this year you've missed The Letters of Jane Austen – been and gone, obviously on a speedy special delivery service. Edinburgh festival: day 14 on the fringe 2012-08-20T16:11:32Z Sense and Sensibility West Coast premiere of Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the Jane Austen novel about love and courtship in late 18th-century England. L.A. theater openings, July 10-17: 'Space' and more 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky and “all the Brontës’s novels” are among the impressive goals! Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The group checked into a quaintly un-air-conditioned hotel in Southampton, where Austen is said to have danced on her 18th birthday. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It's an homage to Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" but as up to date as a story in The New Yorker, where the author is a contributor. What our writers love this week 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z Two hundred years after Austen’s death, we asked Straub, who owns a bookstore in New York, to reflect on the British novelist’s timeless popularity. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z “It burns me that there were only men at the funeral,” Ms. Quindlen said, noting that Austen’s gravestone at Winchester Cathedral made no mention of her books. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z His latest book, “The Jane Austen Diet: Austen’s Secrets to Food, Health, and Incandescent Happiness,” will be released this month by Turner. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Although Vidal’s life with his no-nonsense, gruffly sensible companion Howard Austen is the focus of “Sympathy for the Devil,” the book, like any memoir, also conveys a partial portrait of its author. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The building is an homage to Austen and her works. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Austen's narratives depend on our imagining male sexual needs. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z At the balls in Austen's novels, you can talk during dances, especially those that require some partners to wait while others perform. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z They had been kept in a desk belonging to Austen. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Director Eric Tucker and playwright Kate Hamill of New York’s Bedlam troupe affirm the richness of theatrical opportunity in Austen’s decorously vibrant characters, in a fluid staging that sparkles with wit and invention. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z His death threw the Austen women on hard times and, at 29, she was also facing the fact that she would likely remain a spinster — just like Elizabeth Watson, the older sister in the novel. Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Comes to the Stage 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z One asked me if I’d name Austen’s six novels in order, and he wrote them down. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Amy Smith was in Argentina when she struck up a conversation with a stranger about literature—specifically, about Jane Austen. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z Austen complained in a letter to her sister that “Pride and Prejudice” was “too light, & bright, & sparkling; it wants shade.” The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z During the one decade 1811-20 not only were Byron, Keats and Shelley writing and Jane Austen’s novels published, but Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope and George Eliot were all born. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z People probably think costume design at the V&A – oh, it'll be all Jane Austen. Hollywood drama takes starring role at V&A 2012-10-11T17:19:21Z Yet, that "without knowing what she did" is surely one of the brilliant little touches by which Austen lets us sense an attraction that her own character cannot acknowledge. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z Yet it’s not just pithy quotations, real or imagined, that Todd is borrowing here; she is also using Austen’s famous “free indirect discourse.” Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z He worked in advertising and later at the Austen Riggs Center, a Massachusetts psychiatric treatment facility, using theater as a therapeutic tool. Ike Schambelan, Director Who Brought Disabled Artists to the Stage, Dies at 75 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z James said in a telephone interview from her home in London that the new book allows her to indulge two great passions: Austen and crime stories. P.D. James writes Jane Austen sequel 2011-10-13T12:07:10Z The only novelist in the top 20 is Jane Austen at 13. Marie Curie tops BBC History poll of women who changed the world 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Jane Austen and the Brontes are apparently the gateway drugs to a lifetime of HEA yearning. Heaving bosoms and joyous endings conquer Capitol Hill 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Elizabeth has a complicated history and needs, much like a Jane Austen heroine, to marry to ensure her future. Movie Review: ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century 2014-05-01T22:04:13Z Even if any adaptation inevitably offers diluted Austen, Deborah Bruce's production is well staged. Pride and Prejudice – review 2013-06-26T13:04:42Z The latest research was welcomed by Patricia A. Matthew, an associate professor of English at Montclair State University who focuses on literature of the period that encompasses Austen. Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z It is impossible not to speculate as to his reasons for thinking Austen the best solace for those who were severely traumatised. Jane Austen is not that soothing 2013-07-11T16:47:00Z Austen had written 11 chapters of “Sanditon” and begun a 12th when she stopped working on it in early 1817, a few months before she died, at 41. ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z More than 200 years since she first put pen to paper, Jane Austen remains a phenomenal brand - with more than 70 re-workings of her six completed novels in print. Spin-off, sequel or sell out? 2013-12-29T02:44:58Z And Austen's work is everywhere so fresh, just because she's at the beginning of this new realism, before it's worn into its cultural groove. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z McDermid said it was "terrifying" to take on an author of Austen's stature, however. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z “Because they didn’t know she would be Jane Austen,” Stillman interrupted, humorously. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s always surprising to me that more male writers don’t talk about Austen as crucial to their literary identities; she seems absolutely essential. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Austen's stories rely on an acknowledgment of men's sexual appetites, which explain why that "truth universally acknowledged" – an affluent bachelor's desire for a wife – is in fact true. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z And so it goes at most dinner parties and social gatherings that Austen depicts. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z When she is reading Jane Austen, her notes are all about education, morality, self-deception, openness; sometimes she sounds rather like her predecessor. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z “It’s the novel Jane Austen would have written,” said the author Chris Bohjalian, “if Jane Austen lived in Brooklyn Heights in the 21st century.” A Successful Editor Turns Debut Author, Surprising Nearly Everyone 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z More than 850 Austen enthusiasts are expected to descend on Washington this weekend to celebrate their favorite author, who died 200 years ago next July. The Jane Austen convention’s blissful alternate universe 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z According to legend, he was dared by his wife to write a novel -- his first was 1820's "Precaution," a book much inspired by Jane Austen. Forget the Jane Austen romantic comedy: These authors would make way better rom-coms 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z On any given day, you may not be in the mood for George Eliot, Jane Austen, Beethoven, Bach or the Beatles. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z We've done lots of adaptations of Dickens and Austen and things where the author's not around to tell you off if it's rubbish. Keira Knightley due at London Film Festival opener 2010-10-13T15:00:00Z Austen's delightful gothic pastiche doesn't get the screen time it deserves, but Felicity Jones's effervescent performance as proto-Twihard Catherine Morland shouldn't be overlooked. Pride and Prejudice at 200: the best Jane Austen small-screen adaptations 2013-01-28T14:07:22Z When I wrote my first novel nearly 30 years ago, my reading was not Jewish American but mainly the English novelists such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. Q&A: Howard Jacobson, Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question 2010-10-15T16:25:00Z Only three early Austen letters are preserved in any British national collection, the group noted, with the surviving bulk instead held at the Morgan Library in New York City. Brontë Auction Is on Hold as Group Tries to Keep Library Intact 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Caroline remembers some of the songs Austen sang for her in her last years, and in January 1817, six months before her death, Austen wrote to Caroline: Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z This is Yasutake’s first Austen conference, but by Thursday morning, it already felt like home. The Jane Austen convention’s blissful alternate universe 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Jones, who retired last fall, says Tyler is a "great social observer," part of a tradition dating back at least to Jane Austen. Anne Tyler, still making it up 2012-04-03T12:39:08Z Its confidence, intelligence and good humour look forward to Chadha's feature debut, Bhaji on the Beach, followed by Bend it Like Beckham and her Bollywood take on Jane Austen, Bride and Prejudice. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Cohen pays close attention to gaps of time in Austen’s life, such as the years she lived without a permanent home, after her father’s death, before she rewrote and published her first novels. The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z At the time of her death, she was writing and hoped to direct a movie about a Jane Austen fan who switches places with one of the British author's fictional characters. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z The society conducts such trips every year, but 2017 is the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death, so there was a special sense of occasion in the air. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Austen, the beloved novelist, was born on Dec. 16, 1775, in Hampshire, England. Jane Austen gets her own day (Dec. 16) 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about 10. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Barchas’s celebrity-centric reading of Austen is part of a growing body of scholarship that emphasizes the worldly, history-minded side of a writer long seen as a country mouse preoccupied with timeless truths. ‘What Jane Saw’ Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans 2013-05-24T12:00:01Z Like many Jane Austen fans, I could recite some of the best lines by heart. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z If such provocative presentations were hardly on the schedule last weekend, audiences were not entirely unreceptive to readings that probed underneath the seemingly decorous surfaces of Austen’s novels. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z On the minibus, the talk was all Jane Austen. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Jane Austen is a "steely, tough-minded, sardonic social critic"? The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z He's the representation here of Austen's Lydia: young, immature and flirty. How "Fire Island" does Jane Austen 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z “Would we even want her to? When we lose the beauty of subtext — Austen’s greatest storytelling strength — what else exactly do we gain?” Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z I told them about the history of Austen’s being celebrated in elite private men’s clubs a century ago, at the same time that her name was marched through the streets on a suffragist banner. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Why do we read Jane Austen every year, then, when we know Elizabeth will marry Darcy? John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Despite Byrne's attention to small things and their chintzy domestic pedigrees, she acknowledges that Austen looked askance at "conjugal and maternal affections". The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z But sometimes we forget that Jane Austen herself was a comedic genius. Stars shine brightly at Sundance 2013-01-20T12:19:57Z Austen is a great artist – through and through. Attack on Jane Austen's genius shows neither sense nor sensibility 2010-10-25T11:02:00Z When they set off for Wales and Venice, “Jane Austen” comes along. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “When he became archbishop of Buenos Aires, apart from annual visits to Rome, I’m only aware of three trips he ever made,” said biographer Austen Ivereigh. Pope Francis struggles with English. Here’s how he’ll get his message across in the U.S. 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z There’s smut everything, and there’s Jane Austen everything. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Austen's allure is in the exacting set of rules . Why "Bridgerton" and "Sanditon" dialed back the sex – and came out stronger for it 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The phenomenon is hardly limited to Austen’s fictional rural society. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z Just when you start to despair about the art of storytelling, along come Jane Austen and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Critic?s Notebook: New York Musical Theater Festival Is Under Way 2011-10-03T22:31:10Z A diary entry from another Austen brother, Francis, called it regrettable that any trace of slavery “should be found to exist in countries dependent on England, or colonised by her subjects.” Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In this delightful — and very British — novel, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron all make cameos, along with, of course, Jane Austen. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Alas, Austen’s former residence at No. 25 is now a dental practice, but the Jane Austen Center is located at No. 40, a house similar in size and style. Mark the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death by visiting Bath, a city she called home 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The Improvised Musical and now the crew behind Austentatious, who attempt to spontaneously generate a complete dramatised Jane Austen novel at every performance. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-08T00:05:44Z The portrait was based on the only confirmed portrait of Austen made during her lifetime by her sister Cassandra. 'Definitive' Austen work for sale 2013-10-31T12:42:16Z Mr. Austen died that year, and in “Point to Point Navigation,” his second volume of memoirs, Mr. Vidal recalled that Mr. Austen asked from his deathbed, “Didn’t it go by awfully fast?” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z He aspired to a playwriting career and earned a Broadway credit in 1959 as one of the lyricists for “First Impressions,” a musical based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that Mr. Styne’s company produced. Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The facile performers of “Jane Austen UnScripted” do not so much spoof their material as much as channel specifically delineated characters from another place and time. The 99-Seat Beat: A theater in fire-scarred Ventura makes its holiday wish 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I have always been a huge fan of Jane Austen novels – the romance of it. Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, “Sense and Sensibility,” has been transformed into a musical at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Essential Arts & Culture: Convention architecture, art of the border, 'Cabaret' turns 50 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z “People here are much more sophisticated readers of Austen than the world gives them credit for,” she said. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z She orders Liza to create a Twitter account and tweet as Jane Austen to market an e-book edition of “Pride and Prejudice.” Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z I was without Jane Austen for several years. Whit Stillman Discusses Austen’s Sense and His Sensibility 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z This new "Emma." – yes, with a period affixed to the name – is one that knows in its bones that Austen wrote the first great teen comedy, and runs with that joyfully. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z There are the expected entanglements with unsuitable suitors followed by romantic resolution, though some of the life choices might take Austen by surprise. Newly Released 2010-02-18T00:43:00Z Emma Hamilton looks even younger than the 29-year-old whom Ibsen specified, and has the kind of refined beauty we associate with Jane Austen TV heroines. Hedda Gabler – review 2012-07-11T16:33:08Z But the real-life connection between the Prince Regent and Austen is delectably awkward social comedy enough. Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z That is actually the theme of every Jane Austen novel, and of every movie based on a Jane Austen novel. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z “I think a lot of middle-class, middle-aged journalists like putting this preposterous intellectual scaffolding on it, saying it’s a bit like Shakespeare or Jane Austen,” Mr. Abell said. If It’s on ‘Love Island,’ Britain’s Talking About It 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z In high school it was all Jane Austen and Edith Wharton. Mindy Kaling: By the Book 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Lefroy was the "Irish friend" of whom Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra: "Imagine to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and sitting down together." Jane Austen's gold ring goes up for auction 2012-07-06T12:41:04Z Book-It Repertory Theatre continues its felicitous tour through the Austen canon in a pleasing new theatrical version of "Sense and Sensibility." Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z Jane Austen fans have long speculated about who could have inspired the character Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice," but the rumors have never led to a truth universally acknowledged. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Sullivan’s thoughtful writing and direction mirror Montgomery’s wry, loving tone, which understands the absurdity of life and approaches it with humor, à la Jane Austen. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “Colin Firth does dominate my visual field, which is a pity,” he said, “because TV and film fix an image of a character whom Jane Austen, for artistic reasons, left vacuous.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Claire Tomalin, the esteemed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, among others, tells her own story in this memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Austen devotees will probably enjoy the many pages of painstaking precis in which Chwe reveals the strategic thinking of one character after another. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z The Watsons was never completed, possibly because its plot reflected Austen's own life at the time, concerning as it does the daughters of a sick and widowed clergyman who dies, leaving them impoverished. Jane Austen manuscript auctioned for almost ?1m 2011-07-14T18:26:22Z While imperfect, this production is a must-see for Jane Austen fans. Review | Bravo for reviving the play that scandalized Jane Austen’s world 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z We stood at a vantage point in its churchyard that overlooks the yellow limestone home where Jane Austen used to visit relatives when it was a parsonage. It’s hard not to be charmed in unspoiled south-central England 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Watching the response, I was reminded in an tangential way to the insane, appalling fallout that followed the Bank of England’s decision to put author Jane Austen on the ten pound note. Doctor Who, Jane Austen, and the What it Means to Complain Online 2013-08-16T16:52:05Z Austen’s description in the novel of our route to the shore could almost still apply today. Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z While Yamashita's buoyant sense of humor and wicked wordplay are fully on display with these Austen tributes, it's a treat that is made sweeter by first traipsing through the first half of the collection. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In the Modern Philology paper, she and a co-author, Elizabeth Picherit, weave together an argument on Austen’s late-in-life health and her social milieu based on her novels, her life and the glasses. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.” Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader with a passion for the Regency novels of Jane Austen must be in want of similar fare. A Jane Austen-esque novel for teens and other best books for young readers 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Exactly 200 years ago, Austen herself went to see the exhibition, describing it enthusiastically in a letter to her sister, Cassandra. New website displays celebrities of Jane Austen's youth 2013-05-24T10:41:54Z Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice may have just turned 200, but the beloved story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy still looms large. Finally: Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy Immortalized as a Statue 2013-07-10T15:21:59Z This was the question the British playwright Laura Wade wanted to solve in bringing “The Watsons,” an unfinished novel by Jane Austen, to the stage. Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Comes to the Stage 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z If I want to understand the dreams of the gentry and the nightmares of the poor in early-19th-century England, I turn to Jane Austen and William Blake. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Jane Austen hasn’t written a new book in 200 years, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying to resurrect, recast and reimagine her old ones. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Relatability aside, the reliable romantic fulfilment and neat narrative closure of Austen’s works is also why I keep seeking them out right now. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Jane Austen could involve herself with Jane and Elizabeth Bennet while keeping her emotional distance from Lydia and Mrs. Bennet. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z If Jane Austen were alive today, someone might well suggest to her that she desperately needs a brand manager. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s the same kind of attitude that would look back and enjoy Jane Austen but enjoy Trollope even more. Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds 2011-03-06T00:26:18Z This spring brought a cheeky new feature adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” that had the heroine get a nosebleed just as Mr. Knightley declared his love. This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Opposition to the decision came from those finding fault with Austen’s never marrying, Austen being white and even the quote chosen to accompany the portrait on the note itself. Doctor Who, Jane Austen, and the What it Means to Complain Online 2013-08-16T16:52:05Z Austen may not seem obvious literary fare for prisoners. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z De Wilde's version places the Austen tale squarely where the work belongs — in a world that is simultaneously over the top and stingingly real. "Emma." is the candy-coated "Clueless" remake we deserve 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z She also tells her to put Austen on Match.com. Review: In TV Land’s ‘Younger,’ a Woman Cheats the Clock to Land a Job 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z He made his name in 2005 with an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, scouring away the refinement of Jane Austen's novel and filling the screen with squawking chickens, muddy petticoats and wind-reddened cheeks. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z What is most incredible about Jane Austen is that a couple of goofy novelist/booksellers can get so giddy about her books 200 years after her death. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Carter thought Austen and Dickens were cartoonists, not novelists. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z From Jane Austen to James Patterson, every author has their own way of writing. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z It is not the first time Thompson, who won an Oscar for her 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, has addressed the issue. Emma Thompson: sexism in acting industry is worse than ever 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Law notes that Morley looked the way that Austen described Mr. Darcy -- handsome and "very intense." Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Morley's second wife was a friend of Jane Austen, and her brother Henry knew the earl in college. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z The script, by Jason Fuchs, was on the Black List, and Joe Wright — he of “Atonement” and Jane Austen fame -- is the unlikely director at the helm. The other 2015 film preview: Clooney, 'Chappie' and Scorsese Jesuits 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z "This is the most important likeness of Jane Austen ever likely to appear on the open market," he said. 'Definitive' Austen work for sale 2013-10-31T12:42:16Z Writing her letter to her cousin as if she were corresponding with Hunter Austen writes: “Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich.” Vicious diss letter from Jane Austen fetches $209,300 at auction 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are two of the most common examples. From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘After’: Why publishers want fan fiction to go mainstream “In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama.” Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The simplest answer is that movies get remade all the time, and the great 19th-century novelists — Austen and the Brontë sisters especially — have proved to be an inexhaustible and almost foolproof resource. Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z Not least, he regularly turns for insight to the era’s two most famous novels: Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s a neat conclusion to the story of Austen as counselor: it ends with a Marriage. Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks 2012-06-04T17:30:03Z With that opening sentence from “Pride and Prejudice,” we were invited to help create a well-laid story about — well, what are all Jane Austen novels about? Love Jane Austen? Seattle improv show may be your cup of tea 2013-01-18T22:22:14Z Somehow, the passage of a century or more makes them seem weightier, just as it has turned the ladies’ entertainments of Jane Austen’s time into the literature of today. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z The life of Jane Austen is being dramatised yet again in an upcoming film called Jane by the Sea, based on the novel by Carolyn V Murray. Jane Austen's life to be turned into a big-screen romantic comedy 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z I considered myself the smart one, but her grades were better than mine and she’d read all of Jane Austen for fun. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Austen filled the space behind his “Procession” with a large wall drawing; Rodríguez Jimenéz did something similar to enhance two free-standing pieces. In the galleries: Artists illustrate the evolving principles of geometric painting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z I recall an uncomfortable episode that took place, improbably, at a Jane Austen Society meeting at which I was speaking. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z There are gifts for fans of Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and more. Some favorite gifts (that aren't books) for book lovers 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It's easier to be frank about sexual attraction – here and when the BBC version undresses Firth – than to admit, as Jane Austen does, the amorous allure of money. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z At such an accomplished turn of events, Austen herself would stand up and cheer. This is how you bring Jane Austen to the stage 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Lourd announced on her social media Friday that she and her fiance, Austen Rydell, welcomed their newborn son into the world. Billie Lourd introduces newborn son in surprise announcement 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Charlotte is very much a Jane Austen character, and Cold Comfort Farm was based on Austen’s Emma. How we made: The Last Days of Disco 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z James luminously captures Austen's formal but supple style and her bemused way of noting all-too-human foibles. Crime fiction: Nothing like a good 19th-century mystery 2012-01-04T22:42:04Z Despite what I’ve just said about “Persuasion,” I think Jane Austen gets funnier the older you are. Olivia Laing’s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Certainly, this notion is less applicable today than it was in Jane Austen’s lifetime, as both single men and single women can be in possession of a good fortune nowadays. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z If you remember that Thompson’s character is supposed to be 19 in the Jane Austen novel on which the 1995 film is based, her matriarchal, self-possessed Elinor won’t fool you for a second. Ben Platt Isn’t the Oldest Adult to Play a Teenager Onscreen 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Salon talked to Castillo recently via Zoom about "How to Read Now," the myth of empathy and the trouble with Jane Austen adaptations. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Cohen reflects that sufferings become layered over time: the loss of a father; the loss of conditions needed to write; Austen’s private longing for a pianoforte. The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Abbeville Press recently published the first full facsimile of the three volumes of juvenilia that the teenage Austen bound into books. Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Goes on Exhibit 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z It seems like it was just a matter of time before you got to Jane Austen. Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Her former home, now Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, and Winchester Cathedral, where she is buried, will stage exhibits. A Year to Toast Independence, Reformation and Satire 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And Lizzy is still the bright second daughter — although now almost twice as old as her Austen original — wittily observing all these personalities while navigating the cross-currents of her own heart. ‘Eligible’: A modern retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z And we can have something like "Fire Island" as an example of putting Austen in context. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z That’s when I made a realization that almost sent me running for the smelling salts: There were shocking similarities between the habits health researchers prescribe today and those Austen extolled more than 200 years ago. Jane Austen believed beauty could come in every shape and size. What else can she teach us about wellness? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z While writing Emma, Austen wrote that she was creating a heroine "whom no one but myself will much like." Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Jane Austen once advised a young writer that “three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on.” J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: We've Read It, Here's What We Thought 2012-09-27T05:01:21Z She won the role of Kitty Bennet in "Pride & Prejudice," the 2005 film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Carey Mulligan to return to a New York stage 2011-01-13T20:07:08Z Austen is being enthusiastically celebrated this summer on both sides of the Atlantic, with parties, lectures, festivals, dances, plays, exhibitions, walking tours, costume balls, conferences, role-playing weekends, new books and the like. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Reproduced in these pages in vivid detail, these cheap editions are the neglected workhorses that underwrote Austen’s enduring legacy. When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Soon enough, I learned that all sorts of people are obsessed with Austen. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z She emphasized that the glasses did not indicate that anybody had set out to murder Austen, the author of “Pride and Prejudice.” A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Usually this is when his theory of strategic thinking cannot accommodate Austen's techniques for indicating how her characters have motives different from those they acknowledge to themselves. Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Youg Chwe – review 2013-06-12T09:01:01Z The Darcy figure in Fielding's novels takes his name from the aloof hero of "Pride and Prejudice" created by early 19th century English novelist Jane Austen. Bridget Jones fans v. upset at Mr Darcy's death 2013-10-01T13:02:53Z Q. For those hoping to get in on the Jane Austen celebrations, what are some of the highlights? Q&A: Navigating England’s Literary Landscape 2013-06-27T14:46:58Z It looks like they have quickly searched for an Austen phrase and it illustrates my suspicion they chose Austen because they don't get her. What now for Britain's new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? 2013-07-27T21:15:01Z But just as Austen’s novels today are often dramatized into mere historical romance, so Cranko’s “Onegin” turns Pushkin into pulp historical fiction. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Onegin,’ at Metropolitan Opera House 2012-06-05T21:29:30Z For fans of Austen’s novel, it’s hard to imagine the director Carrie Cracknell’s version providing a sense of ease or escapism. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Well, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a medium in possession of an Austen reference must want attention. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z For decades, he was one of the country’s most visible liberal intellectuals, though he and his partner, Howard Austen, spent years living abroad. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Dear Jane Austen fans: Run, don’t perambulate, to see “Lovers’ Vows.” Review | Bravo for reviving the play that scandalized Jane Austen’s world 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Austen is one of only four authors to use more female than male. New Study Reveals Which Authors Have Ignored Women Most 2013-03-08T19:05:49Z Austen reigns eternal as the queen of the form, and author Julia Quinn's series of "sensual" novels, from which the series is adapted, are patterned after what she wrought. "Bridgerton" is Netflix's randy costume confection that you'll want to put in your face straightaway 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z “Jane Austen is like ‘Gossip Girl,’ and Charlotte and Emily were like Goth twins,” he said. Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z In its comic study of Edwardian manners and marriages, “Room with a View” does share attributes of Jane Austen’s 19th-century novels. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z All sorts of women can be musical – or not – in Austen's novels. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid 2012-07-19T14:42:25Z The darker side of Austen is hardly unknown to literary scholars. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z Austen’s cult has been rivalled by the cults of Dickens, Tolstoy, Eliot, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, and Fitzgerald, among others. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z In her debut novel, "Murder at Mansfield Park," she placed Jane Austen characters at the center of a murder mystery. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z I think Jane Austen is the perfect vehicle for that. Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z A ripping homage to Dickens, Austen and Conan Doyle, "Instruments of Darkness" will keep you up at night, and then, like me, waiting for the sequel. 'Instruments of Darkness': murder and mayhem on an English country estate 2011-02-16T23:38:13Z Williams' Charlotte commands central attention as the resident Austen protagonist who, alongside Clarke's Georgiana, embody grace, good sense and composure above all else. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Two years ago tomorrow, Austen, Billy’s 26-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, died from cancer. The ‘other’ San Juan islanders go their own way 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” at once enters deep into the spirit of Romanticism while standing sardonically outside it; in this respect, Pushkin resembles Jane Austen. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Onegin,’ at Metropolitan Opera House 2012-06-05T21:29:30Z In a twist that would make Jane Austen blush, he thinks he was in love with the soul of his current wife, Jo-Anne, then embodied as a cook in the estate’s kitchen. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z All things Austen have been celebrated enough for, like, two years. Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z About the author: Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels including The Jane Austen Book Club. Man Booker Prize 2014: At a glance 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “The Jane Austen fragment seems like a real departure to me,” he said. Sauce and sensuality: TV drama adds extra mischief to Austen 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z “Emma” would soon be published, and Austen was entitled to complimentary copies. Perspective | Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Austen, Washington State’s new Poet Laureate, and Flenniken, her predecessor, read and talk about the role of the Laureate. The Week Ahead: Miro show, Miley Cyrus, improv fest 2014-02-12T22:16:32Z For a meme to really take off, it has to be relatable; it has to contain a truth universally acknowledged, as Jane Austen would put it. From Distracted Boyfriend to Unhelpful Teacher, I love the twists of a meme’s journey | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s Jane Austen’s mix of irony and satire and true generosity to her characters that makes Emma Woodhouse so charming, and what makes the book so pleasurable to read. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In the scene as imagined by Austen and enacted by the BBC, Collins was talking about his calculated plans for marriage and social climbing. Jane Austen meets mansplaining: This is the perfect satire of the anti-feminism movement 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Jane Austen fans might want to brush up on their footwork beforehand at the monthly Regency Dance Workshop, which celebrates dances of the early 19th-century. 5 Ways to Time-Travel (and Party) in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z In the back of his Penguin edition was an Austen novella he hadn’t come across before: “Lady Susan,” which Stillman, now a full-blown Austenophile, at sixty-four, has just adapted into his latest film, “Love & Friendship.” Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Cohen provides ample shade for all five of Austen’s major novels. The Consolations of Jane Austen 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Third, Jane Austen has a great comic gift, which in a peculiarly Western manner she mingled with solemnity. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z One of very few surviving Austen manuscripts, “The Watsons” is interesting for being extensively revised and corrected in her tiny, precise handwriting — evidence of Austen’s painstaking writing habits. ArtsBeat: A Reunion of Sorts: Two Pieces of Unpublished Austen Novel Are Both in New York 2011-06-10T14:33:42Z It was forensic artist Melissa Dring who commissioned the work for the Jane Austen centre. First ever Austen waxwork unveiled 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z While her husband plowed through Jane Austen’s love story in a day, she admits she struggled a bit. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z And in her script, Sarah Rose Kearns shows a misunderstanding of the delicacies in Austen’s text. Review: In ‘Persuasion,’ How to Lose Lovers and Influence People 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “Jane Austen took me away from the heaviness of reality and made me feel less lonely.” Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z You wrote a children's biography of Jane Austen. Gill Hornby: 'We all go slighty bonkers when our children are little' 2013-05-19T06:00:25Z Austen is the author of a poetry collection, “Every Dress a Decision,” plus two poetry chapbooks. Will Seattle be UNESCO’s next City of Literature? 2014-02-28T23:00:34Z Though she has been a guide for 42 years, this was her first Austen tour. Where Jane Austen Danced, Dined or Dallied 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z No one writes with Austen’s particular sensibility, and no one would really want to; she was perfectly of her time. ‘Eligible,’ Curtis Sittenfeld’s Update of Jane Austen 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z "Pride and Prejudice" is not James' favorite Austen novel — that would be "Emma" — yet it was the first she read, finding it on the Sunday school bookshelf when she was 9. P.D. James channels Austen in new murder mystery 2011-12-22T21:04:04Z Game Theory: Jane Austen Had It First It’s not every day that someone stumbles upon a major new strategic thinker during family movie night. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z It’s a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in want of attention could do worse than take possession of Jane Austen. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Like Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes or Jane Austen’s Emma, the heroes of “The Musketeers” are constantly tampered with because they are too good to leave alone. A New Version of ‘The Musketeers,’ on BBC America 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z "Fire Island" takes as its inspiration Austen's classic tale. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Austen explores the psychology of straight male predators, capturing their charms, weaknesses and wickedness. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jane Austen was less concerned with such matters, basing characters like Wickham in Pride and Prejudice upon "The Rake" from the lore tradition. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z "You're surrounded by Merchant Ivory films and adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, and I never saw myself represented in British history, in British drama." Oyelowo brings 2 inspiring tales from Africa to Toronto 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z When you read Austen, did she seem to be describing the world you knew and the one you’d known, or was it an exotic kind of world you wanted to live in? Whit Stillman returns: “Sometimes it’s good to blow through all your deadlines” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Alice Austen may not be a household name, but scholars of early photography or early feminism may be familiar with her remarkable life. Photography and Feminism: ‘Alice in Black and White’ at 59e59 Theaters 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In Austen’s novel, Darcy’s social awkwardness, so entwined with his integrity and his intelligence, is key to his appeal. Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—Jane Austen, with Teeth 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Last month, some 300 costumed revelers gathered at the Masonic Temple in Pasadena, Calif., for the annual Jane Austen Evening. Dancing to Jane Austen’s Beat 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, Ellison — like Hughes and Austen and Chaucer — remained intangible to me, aloof, distanced both by time and by achievement. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Although French music is not mentioned in the novels, Austen had several French songs in her collection, some of them overtly political. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Taylor is one of Austen's heirs – a wonderful comic miniaturist who deserves never to be forgotten. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Jane Austen has never been able to shake off this association with dressing up. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Even when the wily or wicked mar Austen’s universe, they do not prevail. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Austen published six novels, including "Pride and Prejudice," and died in 1817 at age 41, but none of the original manuscripts survives. Jane Austen manuscript fetches $1.6M at auction 2011-07-14T12:04:09Z But the point still stands: within our middle-class, educated world there was a canon, which wasn't limited to Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Scott Fitzgerald. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z Bath, of course, is the other obvious one, and the Jane Austen House Museum at Chawton, which is absolutely delightful. Q&A: Navigating England’s Literary Landscape 2013-06-27T14:46:58Z When the BBC trots out another Jane Austen, you think, 'Really, do we need another one?' ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Damian Lewis on 'Homeland' and 'The Forsyte Saga' 2012-09-21T18:30:54Z There is a bookcase full of first editions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, which gets raided by “American burglars,” as he calls his novel-purloining friends. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “As much as in Tolkien, Wodehouse, Chandler or even Jane Austen, this closed world is a whole world,” the critic Boyd Tonkin wrote in The Independent. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z The novelist and critic combines previously published essays, reviews and introductions with some new writing to offer a wonderful reading list, ranging from Jane Austen to Jennifer Egan. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z And Claire Tomalin, whose acclaimed biographies have told the stories of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and other literary giants, gets around to sharing her own accomplished and incident-filled life in a new memoir. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona. Englishmen at 50 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z The series’s saving grace is Lady Mary, a Jane Austen heroine who harbors both pride and prejudice. Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z The BBC staging of the Netherfield ball ... click here to view on mobile In life, Austen loved balls, which were the most exciting events in provincial life. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z Austen could take the 19th century, its customs and culture, for granted. Books of The Times: ?Death Comes to Pemberley? by P. D. James - Review 2011-12-26T22:48:22Z “This is something that highlights the collection while also tapping into the enormous interest in Jane Austen.” Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Louisa May Alcott, like Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, wrote with an acute sense of the precarious lives that women have always led. Joy to the world, "Little Women" has come – and the updated classic is a modern marvel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z The history of the Georgian era isn't just about country houses and Jane Austen heroines. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z Respectable novelists such as Jane Austen tended to avoid the issue. The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala - review 2012-02-10T22:55:05Z Last night, with some trepidation, I attended a theatrical event that may also interest you, given our shared fascination with the writings of Miss Jane Austen. Love Jane Austen? Seattle improv show may be your cup of tea 2013-01-18T22:22:14Z The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura achievement. Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z Kelly’s task, as she sees it, is to decode Austen, revealing her as the “secret radical” she truly was. Was Jane Austen a ‘secret radical’? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But of all the young novelists described as our ‘modern-day Austen,’ Emma Straub may have the greatest claim to that title. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Two Austen works, “Mansfield Park” and “Emma,” mention slavery, with one character defending another as “always rather a friend to the abolition.” Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The glasses, which cannot be said definitively to have belonged to Austen, were bequeathed to the library several years ago by her relatives. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But it’s unclear where, or if, ordinary Austen lovers will be able to view the painting. ArtsBeat: Jane Austen Portrait Sold for $270,000 2013-12-10T20:18:38Z The discussion of Austen was stilted at first, but it gained animation as we grew more comfortable with each other and the material. Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Arsenic was frequently found in water, medication and even wallpaper in Austen’s time, Dr. Tuppen emphasized, and unintentional arsenic poisoning was, she said, “quite common.” A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z One effect of reading Mullen's compendium is to make you appreciate the sheer density, the tight-woven intricacy, of every scene and every exchange in Austen. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z Manuscripts by the mature Austen are extremely rare. Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Goes on Exhibit 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The contrast between the modernized dialogue and Austen’s period-appropriate language only makes both styles seem more mannered. ‘Persuasion’ Review: The Present Intrudes Into the Past 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Jane Austen isn't castigated for wasting her time on parsonical gentry; she is praised for being so honest as to write only about what she knew. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z She said that all romantic comedies were essentially mashups of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," but she injected the formula with a somewhat sentimental flavor. Writer, filmmaker Nora Ephron of Sleepless in Seattle' dies at 71 2012-06-27T12:48:22Z Quite a lot of men enjoy Jane Austen and the far better-written Desperate Housewives – better written than Sex and the City, I hasten to add, not better written than Jane Austen. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z “Persuasion” is the least showy of Austen’s six major novels. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Though Elizabeth Bennet is a noble, engaging and unique heroine, it's Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy Esquire we continue to talk about, more than a century after Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was first published. Move over, Colin Firth – our favorite new Darcy is on "Fire Island" 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The optometrical revelation adds a wonky note of drama to the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death in 1817, weeks after she had traveled to Winchester seeking help for an illness. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In 2000, the online magazine Slate used the headline “Bin Laden a Huge Jane Austen Fan” to tease a column that had pretty much nothing to do with either. Jane Austen Has Alt-Right Fans? Heavens to Darcy! 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s a given that everyone steals from Jane Austen and then gets ripped off in turn — plagiarizing it forward. The TV Watch: ‘The Mindy Project’ and ‘Ben and Kate,’ New Fox Series 2012-09-24T21:56:50Z And even the peculiar prejudices of the island became grist for the mill once Booster read Austen’s novel and realized that her story of social stratification would map neatly onto his own experiences. For Joel Kim Booster, Making ‘Fire Island’ Was a Real Trip 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z But even in its more familiar mode, when the play merely translates “Richard III” into an unexpected milieu the way “Clueless” does with Jane Austen’s “Emma,” it remains enjoyable. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Certain books – by the Brontës and by Jane Austen and Dickens – are indispensable to us and accompany us through life. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z The 31-year-old Stevens, who read English at Cambridge, quickly became a fixture on Brit TV playing elegant gents in adaptations of Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and Henry James. Review: In The Guest, Dan Stevens Goes from Downton Abbey to Dirty, Deranged Harry 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z In “The Seagull,” each has only one part to play, and you can’t fully appreciate their flexibility unless you’ve seen them in the Austen as well. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “They take their destiny in their hands more than the other Austen heroines we know. We love that.” ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z It's a beautifully preserved example of British-mandate Modernism, opened in 1938 and designed by British architect Austen Harrison, who embellished its façade with relief work and graphics in Hebrew, Arabic and English. A Perfect Day in Jerusalem 2010-07-07T13:35:00Z In the book, Austen doesn't allow us to hear Emma's acceptance. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z However, the family documents provide valuable insight into Jane Austen and her world. Jane Austen family letters, 'Wicked Ned' works acquired by Huntington 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z In 1964, in one of her last known major interviews, she remarked that she aspired to be the “Jane Austen of south Alabama.” Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Cornel West, a self-described Jane Austen fanatic, brought down the house with a thunderous Saturday morning sermon on Austen’s understanding of human suffering that name-checked Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Leo Strauss. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z Jane Austen is one of the literary world's most brilliant authors. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z In an otherwise nuanced book, Austen labels the social workers and officials who vowed to clear slums and house the poor as “do-gooders.” A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “Straight down the line — it’s George Eliot, it’s Dickens, it’s Dr. Johnson, it’s Jane Austen.” Booker Prize Winner?s Jewish Question 2010-10-18T22:35:00Z When Nina and Austen arrived at eight, dinner was in the oven. Bawden tribute by East End author 2012-08-23T08:31:09Z All Austen's heroines except Elinor Dashwood dance with the men they love, and all of them have their feelings confirmed by dancing. Jane Austen: Strictly ballroom 2013-05-03T15:00:01Z For as delightful as Austen’s static world may be, it is the humbling, bracing confrontation with the self that lifts her characters beyond caricature and her plots beyond Harlequin romance. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In two weeks it’ll have competition from “Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community.” On Austen, New Books, Banknotes and Board Games 2013-08-08T23:29:06Z Over the course of her life, Austen amassed more than 8,000 images, of which 3,500 survive. Photography and Feminism: ‘Alice in Black and White’ at 59e59 Theaters 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z It is this image of Austen – the view summed up by her nephew as "a life of usefulness, literature, and religion … not by any means a life of event" – that Paula Byrne seeks to refute. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z Honestly, I’m grateful not to have time to reread Austen because I know what I’d actually be using it for: ruminating impotently on the horrors in the news. No spare time in lockdown? That's not such a bad thing 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Austen was unavailable for comment, but Ms. Athill responded in an interview with the Guardian. ArtsBeat: A Rant of His Own: V.S. Naipaul Takes on Women Writers 2011-06-03T18:54:56Z One mark of an Austen hero is listening with enjoyment and attention to the woman who has attracted his interest. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Forster’s “Howards End,” Jane Austen’s “Sanditon,” Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White” and Frank Tallis’s “Vienna Blood,” a detective series set in the early Freudian era and based on novels by an English psychologist. Perspective | Never mind the Brits, here are five American novels perfect for ‘Masterpiece’ treatment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But if she's transposed Austen into a darker key, "Pride and Prejudice" is, after all, not without its secrets and lies and late-hour revelations — it is a mystery story, in its way. In 'Death Comes to Pemberley,' a brisk mystery in Austen-land 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Andrew Davies, the indefatigable overachiever of British literary adapters, expands on the novel Jane Austen abandoned before her death. The 50 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Winter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It is a truth universally acknowledged that we’ve grown awfully sloppy with allusions to Jane Austen. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z |
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