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 ...

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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.

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 ...

It’s an act braver than marrying for love, riskier than running away with Mr. Wickham and plainer than Anne Elliot to adapt Jane Austen’s beloved, essential books for the screen.

Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen – Persuasion PBS, Sun. Jan. 13, 9 p.m. Production: Filmed in the U.K. by Clerkenwell Films for ITV in association with WGBH Boston.

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

The 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park changes some things about Austen's 1814 novel, namely making colonialism and slavery one of its centerpieces, adding in a few scenes that would be considered ...