The Acting Company, a performing arts theater in Yuba City, just started its run of “Pride and Prejudice” by playwright Kate Hamill. According to the local production’s director, David Wheeler, Hamill ...

Her favorite author is Jane Austen. So he proposed at a local bookstore with a message inside a copy of "Pride and Prejudice.

Retrace the novelist's childhood haunts, visit the grand country piles that inspired her six novels or recreate the best ...

Miss Austen provides ... notably that Jane had only one sister and seven brothers. This fact was particularly surprising when contrasted with Pride and Prejudice's protagonist Elizabeth Bennet ...

As travellers flock to the English countryside to celebrate the renowned novelist, we asked experts to weigh in on the best Austen-themed festivals, reenactments and balls of the year.

Jane Austen's life is posthumously explored in ... Much like her heroines in Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, Jane's father was a gentleman, but this did not mean that the Austens ...

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice appears on best-loved literature lists across the globe, is a fixture in high school classrooms, and has spawned a rabid fan base and countless film and ...

As an avid Jane ... of Pride and Prejudice as reflected in the bond between Lizzy and Jane. Despite all her heroines getting happy endings, Jane didn’t get one herself and Miss Austen suggests ...

The exhibition puts it down to ‘serendipity’, but Austen is especially popular in periods of economic difficulty. In the recession of the early 90s, romantic escapism was all people wanted. The Monday ...