Sixty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Last month, I noted that Jane Austen’s account of a...

Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...

Jane Austen apparently liked to eat – “You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me,” she wrote to her sister in June...

Sixty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. You know how as soon as you return from vacation, it feels as...

Sixty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen was perfectly capable of writing a sensitive...

Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...

When Keira Knightley was cast as Elizabeth Bennet in the 2005 feature film of Pride and Prejudice, she worried that her performance would...

Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...

One of the many, many reasons I am glad not to live in the time of Jane Austen – right up there with the absence of antibiotics, reliable...

Jane Austen’s death is tragic, because she died at only forty-one, at the height of her artistic powers. It’s also mysterious – the...

Sixty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen communicated nothing particularly remarkable in...

Sixtieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The record of Jane Austen’s thoughts, feelings, and opinions is...