England is a wonderful country. Its history is rich, its democracy is a model for the world, its literature is second to none. Its food...

In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...

When Jane Austen described her work as “the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces...

Perhaps because Jane Austen’s writing feels so fresh and modern, it’s tempting to imagine her as a contemporary who shares our...

Jane Austen fanfiction is a female-dominated field. That’s not surprising: Twenty-first-century Austen fandom is heavily female, and many...

Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...

The classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...

The 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...

Work on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...

For someone who led such a short, uneventful life, and one about which comparatively little is known, Jane Austen has inspired a...

I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...

In 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...