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Sex in Jane Austen

The British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...

Jane Austen, by the book

Last Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...

Scones redux

Two weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite the Emporia Gazette's claims to the contrary, none of Jane Austen’s characters ever eats a...

Welcome, Sanditon

Welcome to Sanditon, the new web series from the creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, premiered its first video Monday (with another...

Jane Austen in India

How awesome is this? A sixteen-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, has founded the city’s first Jane Austen club. "I've been fascinated by...

Can't anyone kill this beast?

Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

No scones here

A cooking story from the Emporia Gazette of Kansas recently popped up on my Jane Austen Google alert. “I have long adored scones,” wrote...

Among the Janeites -- available August 6

The release date for Among the Janeites has been moved up about a month, to August 6 – we’re hoping to catch a bit of the publicity wave...

Good news!

The first pre-publication review of Among the Janeites -- from the book-trade publication Publishers Weekly -- has just landed, and I'm...

Jane Austen -- not a game theorist

Michael Suk-Young Chwe’s Jane Austen, Game Theorist has made quite a splash since its publication last week: a story on the front page of...

Bittersweet Sanditon

The creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will soon launch a mini-series based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon, so in...

Friends don't let friends miss out on Jane Austen

The other night I was trying, once again, to persuade two of my friends to read Jane Austen. They’re both smart, well-educated native...