In Jane Austen’s 1814 coming-of-age novel Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, a young woman who learns to navigate high society when she moves into the estate of her aunt and uncle, receives an amber cross ...
Her writing lives on (she died on this day in 1817, and we’ll celebrate the 250th anniversary of her birth next December), offering us timeless characters. Left: The Rice portrait is believed by the ...
A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...
Born 250 years ago, Jane Austen remains the reigning queen of the marriage plot and, by extension, the romantic comedy. So if there’s something a bit discourteous in the title of writer-director Laura ...
When she created the “handsome, clever and rich” Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen wrote that she suspected this was a character “no one but myself will much like”. It’s difficult to disagree with her ...
Imagine opening an envelope and inside is a hand-written love letter just for you. The art of writing love letters is all but lost in these days of Facebook posts, tweets and e-mails. Enter the Old ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Find your own inspiration. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life follows bookstore owner and hopeless romantic Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford). An aspiring novelist, she’s hit a bit of ...
Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years ...