Which wine pairs best with Jane Austen’s novels? As someone whose annual alcohol consumption can be measured in teaspoons, I wouldn’t know. So I was bemused to run across a recent story headlined “ Enjoy The Worlds of Jane Austen with a Glass of Bubbly ,” on a champagne marketing site called—yes—Glass of Bubbly. According to the site, the perfect pairing for Austen’s novels is “a bottle of Vintage Champagne. . . . rich and complex in flavours and aromas, smooth, creamy an
About twenty-five minutes into Audible’s new audio adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , Sir William Lucas summons Elizabeth Bennet over for a chat. “Sir Lucas! Good evening,” she greets him. That sound you hear is the irritated grinding of my teeth. Mostly, I loved this adaptation. Sure, I could have done without the pop theme song and the occasional dialogic anachronism (“Bingley likes Jane a lot,” Charlotte Lucas says, sounding more like a twenty-first-century middle sch
