Elisha Cohn, Department of Literatures in English, asked who had read Jane Austen before, I shrank into my seat ... it’s also the international holiday for rom-coms. A rom-com — short for romantic ...

All is answered in A Short History of Jane Austen, on BBC Sounds. Written by Linda Harrison, narrated by John Hopkins and with insights from English literature professor Janine Barchas ...

Loosely based on Jane Austen’s most explicitly political and critically controversial novel, “Mansfield Park,” Nikki May’s “This Motherless Land” explores clashes of custom and class ...

Just three days after a performance at Carnegie Hall, Hathaway was cast in her first TV role on Get Real, a short-lived teen ...

Plans for a life-sized sculpture of novelist Jane Austen outside Winchester Cathedral have been approved. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary ...

Jane Austen's works of literature are timeless tales which have stood the test of time. Today, her work is still widely read and loved by many and it's no surprise that so many directors have ...

As a broad spectrum of short films draw attention at film festivals and screening events, identifying frontrunners becomes ...

Over the past two decades, authors have brought Shakespeare’s protagonists and Jane Austen’s heroines into the 21st century in a range of inventive “retellings”. Another sort of ...

Infused with the wit and charm of Jane Austen and driven by Shakespearean interventions of fate, the novel is an inviting romance that doesn’t seek to merely aestheticize the decadent Regency ...

As a broad spectrum of short films draw attention at film festivals and screening events, identifying frontrunners becomes increasingly difficult. Listed below are some of the noteworthy films ...