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Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.
As Jane Austen marks her 250th anniversary this year, devoted admirers worldwide have been honouring her legacy by revisiting ...
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 ...
The latest Jane Austen adaptation, a new Sense and Sensibility, is now rounding out the cast with the primary love interests ...
From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about ...
The Austen renaissance continues. Sense and Sensibility is the next of Jane Austen’s novels to head to the big screen—again.
Persuasion is the last novel that Jane Austen completed and it was published posthumously in 1817. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a haughty baronet, ...
Ms. Scott and scholars like historian Gretchen Gerzina and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Danielle Christmas, who co-hosted the Jane Austen & Co. series “Race and the Regency ...
The Alicia Silverstone comedy, which just turned 30, tops our list of adaptations based on the works of the English writer — ...
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.
Following the 2020 remake of Emma and Netflix’s 2022 version of Persuasion, perhaps it was only a matter of time before we ...
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...