The Gist: Cassandra lives alone on a big country estate; her maid hands her a letter from Isabella Fowle (Rose Leslie), ...

Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...

Adaptations of the author’s wise and witty novels have long entertained film and TV audiences. This year—the 250th ...

Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...

The four-part series “Miss Austen,” debuting Sunday on PBS, offers viewers a window on Jane Austen’s life during the 250th ...

In “Miss Austen,” though, she’s humanized as a deeply devoted sister who just wanted to keep Jane’s most unfiltered thoughts ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Jane Austen screen adaptation must be in want of a stately home... And this year, as we celebrate 250years since her birth, we delve into some of the ...

Many Australian Muslims say concerns about Israel's conduct in Gaza and a spike in Islamophobia at home have gone unheard by the Albanese government. Federal seats with large Muslim populations ...

Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007). When Jane Austen died in 1817, her family censored many parts of her life and thought it’s best she was remembered as docile Aunt Jane. But Hathaway reminds ...

Dench’s Lady Catherine de Bourgh leaves every other actor who’s played Darcy’s aunt in the dust. She makes the dowager hard to please but easy to watch. “Do you play the pianoforte, Miss ...

A free walking tour of New York City—and more than 200 of them will be available this May as part of Jane's Walk NYC festival hosted by the Municipal Art Society. This beloved annual event ...

While “Regency Girls” isn’t a Jane Austen sequel, her famed novel of manners set in the early 1800s has inspired a world-premiere musical comedy at the Old Globe about a woman of that era ...