About twenty-five minutes into Audible’s new audio adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , Sir William Lucas summons Elizabeth Bennet over for a chat. “Sir Lucas! Good evening,” she greets him.   That sound you hear is the irritated grinding of my teeth.   Mostly, I loved this adaptation. Sure, I could have done without the pop theme song and the occasional dialogic anachronism (“Bingley likes Jane a lot,” Charlotte Lucas says, sounding more like a twenty-first-century middle sch

In life, Jane Austen’s royal connections were minimal. As Janeites will remember, the Prince Regent, later George IV, was a fan of her work. In 1815, a chance encounter scored Austen a private tour of the PR’s London residence, hosted by his librarian, and along the way, she received offer-you-can’t-refuse “permission” to dedicate Emma  to the royal personage. She complied. And that was the sum total of her close encounters with crowned heads.   Posthumously, however, Austen

Jane Austen’s influence on Bridgerton  is old news. If the whole feisty-Regency-heroines-in-marriage-plots thing didn’t give it away,...

No one knows how long we’ll have to wait to see the newest screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , the buzzy Netflix version now filming in the UK. But the latest audio version of the novel, a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation with a full cast, dropped last month, and Audible celebrated by co-hosting a New York City bash—or, rather, a “ Luxe Pride and Prejudice Party . ”   The party— naturally , it was “an immersive experience”—was held at a bar/restaurant with Victorian

Jane Austen’s views on the international tragedies of her time are mostly unknown, except when they are brutally unsentimental. “How...

Twenty years ago, Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Darcy strolled out of the morning mist to a swelling strings-and-piano accompaniment and sent...

The new Netflix adaptation of   Pride and Prejudice seems to be coming along nicely: Press outlets in the UK have breathlessly reported...

Amid all the concerts, exhibits, tea parties, balls, walking tours, screen adaptations, and souvenir merch celebrating the 250 th ...

Autumn is a lovely season in England—cue the Keats : “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”--and for Janeites, this fall offers some...

Say this for Jane Austen: She’s an inexhaustible source of roles for actresses who have aged out of the film industry’s ingenue...

The inexhaustible well of creative inspiration that is Pride and Prejudice  looks to be bubbling over once again. Whether you prefer to...

Inscriptions in old books have an eerie quality--those glimpses of forgotten lives and echoes of silenced voices. So it’s no wonder that...