Um. Seth Grahame-Smith's new novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is a "delightful comedy of manners" featuring…
The Jane Austen Society of North America celebrated its 30th anniversary recently with a Regency Ball at Chicago's…
There are Jane Austen fans. And then are people who love Jane Austen so much that they want their ashes scattered at…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen can be linked to everything, whether "everything" has…
There's a piece in Britain's Spectator about how Jane Austen weathered her own "banking crisis." Her brother was a…
Esquire put up a slideshow of 75 books every man should read, and it is indeed a very good list. However, it's a…
Jane Austen would have really enjoyed the feud that's taking place over which town has the right to call themselves…
Your "friends" are probably telling you not to read the indictment. (You know what indictment! The one charging your…
Calling all Jane Austen enthusiasts! The Governor's House in Hyde Park, Vermont, has scheduled a series of four Jane Austen-themed weekends during which her novel Persuasion will be discussed along with afternoon tea and carriage rides. Suzanne Boden, owner of the Governor's House, says of the weekends, "I'm hoping… Read more
One of the things that stuck in my craw about the Sarah Jessica Parker profile in New York Mag was when SJP claimed…
A bunch of Jane Austen enthusiasts are going to get the vapors when they watch the forthcoming British drama about Jane's life, Miss Austen Regrets. You see, in Miss Austen, Jane is not portrayed as the chaste maiden auntie she's thought by many to have been. According to Reuters, the new drama "depicts [Austen]… Read more
Jane Austen enthusiasts are in for a treat: PBS is broadcasting The Complete Jane Austen, which includes adaptations…
Missing today's installment of the book nerdy Fine Lines? Well, our writer is on vacation — so perhaps you can get…
"[Catherine] was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she… Read more
Is this woman on crack? Emma Campbell Webster hypothosizes in her new book, Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure that Jane Austen's works send a subliminal message to women that they are better off staying single. Though Austen herself never married, her books have long seduced women into… Read more
A few years ago we were really really sick. Everything's all cool now, but to make us feel better, a friend of ours…