During an overseas visit earlier this month, I was too swamped with family business to follow the news with my usual attention. This...

If you’ve ever wondered whether the shortening of our collective attention span spells doom for the appreciation of Jane Austen's...

As Valentine’s Day dawns, all across the Netflix-speaking Janeite world, we are waiting impatiently for the new film adaptation of Jane...

Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...

Seventy-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Moving out of one house and into another is a stressful,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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