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...

These days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...

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

If you want a dulcet-toned Brit to read aloud to you from the works of Jane Austen, your options are many. The audiobook giant Audible...

Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...

The opening credits of Modern Persuasion, which began streaming Friday on a small screen near you, scroll through a litany of actors,...

How radical was Jane Austen? It's a topic of continuing debate: She’s been embraced as an icon of both traditional family values and...