Attention, bargain hunters! Five years ago, you would have needed £9 million (about $11 million) to buy Luckington Court, the Cotswolds estate that played the Bennet family home of Longbourn in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. But the house was quickly withdrawn from the market, amid rumors that the soon-to-be-married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were considering the purchase. The royal couple passed on the deal, and apparently everyone else did, too

It’s never a bad time to talk about Persuasion–really, what are you doing that’s more important?--but right now may be an especially good time to discuss Jane Austen’s last completed novel. See, a new screen adaptation just premiered on Netflix! Maybe you haven’t heard? Assuming you’re not exhausted from all those conversations you’ve been having about whether the new adaptation is a fresh, modern take on Austen’s deathless masterpiece or a travesty that should be buried with

As we Janeites know to our sorrow, only 160 of Jane Austen’s letters survive, and some of those are filled with details that mean little to us now -- references to private jokes, mysterious events, and unidentified acquaintances, with all context lost to the ravages of time. So it’s hard not to sigh with jealousy over the news that the Huntington Library in Southern California has recently acquired an annotated archive of nearly four hundred letters exchanged among members of

Jane Austen never wrote a sequel. Among her many excellent qualities was a sure sense of when to leave well enough alone. Alas, too many people who have made movies based on her work don’t seem to have learned the same lesson. Recent reports suggest we may soon see new installments of two Austen-inspired series that overstayed their welcome long ago: * Earlier this summer, Ryan Paevey, the blandly handsome star of Hallmark’s dreadful “Mr. Darcy” movies – Unleashing Mr. Darcy,

Jane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and sometimes not even that. This reticence leaves readers free to imagine that Elizabeth Bennet or Elinor Dashwood looks like. . . a Bratz doll. Or so we might conclude from a recent Buzzfeed piece contributed by a community member who goes by books_baking_broadway and headlined, “We Used AI To Show What Jane Austen Characters Would Look Like I