'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister
Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's partly ...
Miss Austen
A fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, Miss Austen is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
The true story behind BBC's Miss Austen
Keeley Hawes portrays Cassandra Austen, the older sister of Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen, in BBC's new period drama ...
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Landed gentry and celebrated officers with a knack for creative pursuits: inside the lives of Jane Austen's seven siblings, as Miss Austen is released
As Miss Austen, a new series focused on Cassandra Austen, debuts on the BBC, we delve into the history of the other Austen ...
Oh my, Mr Darcy! Fans go wild as erotic audiobook version of Pride and Prejudice is released - so it SMUT the only way to get people to read?
Bloom Stories has released a 14-hour long audiobook version of British classic 'Pride and Prejudice', which feature intimate ...
Miss Austen TV review — candlelit period drama sheds light on the literary star’s sister
Eventually, Miss Austen blows out the candles and blossoms into a confident and rousing story about female autonomy, with a splash of period romance. The Jane portrayed here would, no doubt, approve.
The Greatest Film Adaptations of 19th-Century Literary Classics
Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...
Looking for You, by Alexander McCall Smith review: 'Choosing the right partner is a serious business'
This second novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s Perfect Passion Company series seems to suggest that we should see marriage as ...
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February Culture Guide: 55 Things to Do in the DC Area
Happy February, DC! Take your Valentine to a romantic R&B concert this month, or groove to the beats of local musician Bartees Strange at 9:30 Club. There’s also a ton of author talks, new art ...
Keeley Hawes on sisterly love and feminism in BBC's 'Miss Austen'
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Dickens joins The Bard for Door Shakespeare's 2025 season of loss, love and finding one's self
The two plays, one a Shakespeare rom-com and the other an adaptation of a Dickens classic, have more in common than being the work of perhaps the two greatest writers in the English language.
The way we date has changed, but the fantasy of a ‘big love’ has not
Today, the romance novel retains a stronghold in our cultural imagination with the growth of the “romantasy” (romance-fantasy) genre. In Australia, sales of romance novels have doubled in the past ...