Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains ...

Production on the new Sense and Sensibility adaptation has officially commenced in the United Kingdom. The film is being ...

The Alicia Silverstone comedy, which just turned 30, tops our list of adaptations based on the works of the English writer — ...

From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about ...

Based on Austen’s 1811 novel, the story of three sisters and their widowed mother was last remade by director Ang Lee in 1995, starring Emma Thompson (who won an Academy Award for writing the adapted ...

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...

Persuasion is the last novel that Jane Austen completed and it was published posthumously in 1817. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a haughty baronet, ...

Ms. Scott and scholars like historian Gretchen Gerzina and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Danielle Christmas, who co-hosted the Jane Austen & Co. series “Race and the Regency ...

Fevers, fatigue, and a changing complexion? Why modern doctors are still trying to make sense of the symptoms the celebrated ...

Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. July 14, 2022. 7 min. Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Netflix's “Persuasion.” (Nick Wall/Netflix) By Martine Powers.

To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...