Learn what Miss Austen author Gill Hornby thinks of the TV adaptation airing on MASTERPIECE starring Keeley Hawes.

Let’s be honest—whenever there’s a period drama based on Jane Austen or her life, we’re in. But Miss Austen on PBS isn’t your typical bonnet-and-ballroom story.

Head of Theatrical Distribution, The Walt Disney Studios, Andrew Cripps promotes the film “Freakier Friday” at The Walt Disney Studios presentation during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema ...

A new PBS 'Masterpiece' series uses Austen's sister Cassandra as a window into the lives of unmarried Regency women ...

When Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, her older sister, Cassandra, was overcome with grief. “She was the sun of my life, ...

Amy Sherald’s portraits are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown — allegories and archetypes with impossibly ...

When Jane Austen’s aunt was forced to stay with the governor of Ilchester Gaol and his family while awaiting trial for alleged shoplifting she found “dirt and vulgarity” rather than sense ...

But in Jane Austen’s original novel, the scene occurs inside, empty of any steady downpours or rolling hills in the background. And, in the novel, devoid of any hints of Mr. Darcy’s true ...

Have you ever made a literary pilgrimage? Several. The most memorable was a trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath with a wonderful journalist friend. We took part in a (successful!) world ...

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...

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 ...