In a new "Pride and Prejudice" spin-off, the over-looked middle child of the Bennet family gets her turn to shine. Here's why I binged the whole series in an afternoon.

Deborah Lutz, a professor of Victorian literature and culture, is the author of six books, including The Brontë Cabinet and This Dark Night, a new biography of Emily Brontë. Below, Lutz recommends six ...

Get ready for another trip into Jane Austen’s England with the upcoming movie adaptation SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.

The central subjects of Jane Austen’s work are romance and marriage, yet at the time of her death, at 41, she had never married. As Austen scholar Paula Byrne notes in the afterword to her new novel, ...

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Big anniversaries are coming up in 2026: 200 years since the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 250 since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 250 since Adam Smith published “The ...

Caroline Jane Knight, who founded the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation nonprofit, speaks with PEOPLE in honor of Austen’s 250th birthday this year Courtesy of Caroline Jane Knight; Stock Montage/Stock ...

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Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years ...

Caroline Jane Knight, the fifth great niece of the beloved author, speaks with PEOPLE about launching the nonprofit to spread literacy around the world Courtesy of Caroline Jane Knight 250 years after ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Most readers know Jane Austen for her six completed novels, but her most dedicated fans (and there are ...

In 1811, Thomas Egerton, who primarily printed military texts, published a novel about two sisters and their widowed mother, “Sense and Sensibility.” It was written anonymously, “by a lady.” More than ...