“You can never have too much Persuasion,” I opined three months ago, as each day seemed to bring a new announcement of a forthcoming...

Who’s Your Favorite Darcy is, by now, a classic Janeite pastime, pitting fervent Firthians against zealous MacFadyenites, while small but...

For an actor, it must be frustrating to realize that you will be remembered almost solely for a role you played at the age of eighteen....

Unlike so many novelists of the Victorian period, Jane Austen didn’t publish her books in serial form. The first readers of, say, David...

As we Pride and Prejudice readers know, Mr. Darcy’s responsible stewardship of his beautiful grounds at Pemberley is an important factor...

Last week, I reported on proliferating Persuasion adaptations – a straight-to-streaming update that aired last December, two period...

Shooting has begun on the second season of Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. A...

Persuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...

Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...

Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...

We adaptation-loving Janeites have grown used to disappointment. Remember the feature film of Sanditon, starring Charlotte Rampling as...

In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...