The Best Tours in London for Families The London Underground public transportation system makes navigating this sprawling city with a family in tow doable and the choice of day trips are endless ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is not autobiographical, but the famed author and her female protagonist, Elizabeth, do share certain traits. They both faced the same societal pressures ...

Opinion: As Jane Austen turns 250, a definitive ranking of her novels and why the true power of Austen is still to be found in her written work I have always been an Austen fan and recently made ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” however, she takes us along on a self-defined quest that grew out of her long admiration for Austen’s confident and witty writing. In her novels and letters ...

Helen Fielding, Jennifer Egan, Kevin Kwan and Vivian Gornick spoke in conversation with New Yorker writer Alexandra Schwartz at the Celebration of Jane Austen at the 92nd Street Y on March 27 The ...

A council spokesperson said: “Whilst Jane Austen may have visited the main house in the past, it is not likely that [she] ever visited the house that stands today.” The authority spokesperson ...

The Wilkes University English Department held a ball in honor of novelist Jane Austen’s 250th birthday on Thursday night at Weckesser Hall. Austen, who was born Dec. 16, 1775, published four ...

Focus Features‘ 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen‘s classic novel, Pride & Prejudice, is set to be re-released in theaters just in time for its 20th Anniversary. On April 20th and April 23rd this ...

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The main business of almost all Jane Austen’s fiction is to portray that brief period in a young woman’s life when she is at the height of her charms and about to surrender them for ever to a more or ...