There’s a bizarrely opaque, oddly modern question hovering over the legacy of Jane Austen. And despite centuries of debate, scholars still haven’t been able to figure out how to answer it. Jane Austen ...

Camille Rutherford is engaging as Agathe, the under-employed clerk at Paris’s famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore. Engaging enough to save this frothy rom-com trading on the trope that too much ...

In an early scene in Kate Evans' Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, she depicts 3-month-old, bundled-up baby Jane being smuggled out through the back door of her family's large home. The ...

Jane Austen fans—Janeites—clear your schedule! You are going to devour this romantic and heartwarming miniseries based on Gill Hornby’s bestseller. The four-part adaptation offers a fresh take on Jane ...

Midway through Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park, a few lines of prose rouse readers into a debate that still rages. The heroine, Fanny Price, known for both her timidity and strong moral ...

With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named Agathe ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to French writer-director Laura Piani about her new movie, a romantic comedy titled "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life." As Agathe Robinson moved through the shelves of the famed ...