“Seven years I suppose are enough to change every pore of one’s skin, & every feeling of one’s mind,” Jane Austen wrote to her sister,...

It’s a funny time right now for us theater-loving Janeites: Some of our favorite things are still virtual, others are on their way back...

Five years ago, in a blog post headlined “Party like it’s 1995,” I heralded a forthcoming spate of filmed Jane Austen adaptations – a...

Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...

Last month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...

The #Sisterhood, it seemed, had won. For more than a year, the online fandom known as the #SanditonSisterhood has lobbied tirelessly for...

Years ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...

It’s Oscar night on Sunday, and even though this year will inevitably lack the red-carpet glamor of pre-pandemic times, I will avidly...

The BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is known among Janeites by various shorthands: * There’s “the wet-shirt P&P,” for...

It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...

Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...

What is the nature of inspiration? How elastic is its definition? How large a distance can stretch between inspiration and inspiree...