The bestselling author’s latest historical novel, Austen at Sea, is a paean to her literary guiding light. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
I have always loved Jane Austen, even though I have been very wrong about her. I remember the day I learned that Austen was not as original a writer as I had thought. I was reading a book called Evelina by Frances Burney. It was a novel Austen herself had read and loved: that’s why […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 09:58:45 UTC ]
An inside look at the publication process for the author and rare book dealer’s latest work of nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
New editions of her novels are aimed squarely at the BookTok demographic – but will this make these classics appeal to fans of “spicy” romance?What will get young people reading classic literature? Better blurbs? Changes in the school curriculum? Flashy new biographies of dead authors? Or might... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-06 17:56:34 UTC ]
What if Jane Austen is actually the master of anti-romance? Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey on how Austen’s rushed endings undercut her reputation. | Lit Hub Criticism Living with a literary icon can teach some incredible lessons. Cory Leadbeater on his life-changing friendship with Joan Didion. |... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-12 10:30:38 UTC ]
Jessica Ball, author of 'Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless Milliner,' is hardly the only writer to profess a passion for libraries. Jane Austen, the heroine of her novel, adored them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their storiesEach year since 2014, the Observer New Review’s writers and editors have read scores of forthcoming debut novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-14 07:00:20 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel died last September at age 70, but a memorial service just this week revealed something of use to those who miss her words. The Guardian’s Saturday Paper will be publishing excerpts from an unpublished project mashing together Jane Austen’s works. “She was having the greatest fun... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-04-21 16:03:28 UTC ]
If you’re a literary genius, you’ve got it easy—right? Wrong. Even Jane Austen, indisputably one of the greatest novelists in the English language, spent years struggling to be published and became so dispirited that there were moments when she almost walked away. The story begins with an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-18 09:54:04 UTC ]
Today in extremely niche literary world factoids: in case you didn’t know (I did not) Zadie Smith has a younger brother named Ben Bailey Smith, an actor and standup who goes by Doc Brown, admires Taylor Swift’s writing ability, and features in Netflix’s new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-20 16:07:31 UTC ]
The Netflix adaptation is yet more proof of the long-overlooked novel's newfound popularity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-14 12:00:30 UTC ]
I cooked my way through a cookbook inspired by Jane Austen's novels, and it opened up the world of the books to me. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-30 10:36:00 UTC ]
Pym’s novels — witty tales of domestic life in British villages — have been compared to the works of Jane Austen. I see a link to Joyce, too. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
Dolly Parton and James Patterson have the #1 book in the country with 'Run, Rose, Run." Plus 'The Wok' by J. Kenji López-Alt is #3 in the country, and another cookbook, 'Jane Austen's Table' by Robert Tuesley Anderson, serves up shortbreads and sensibility. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
‘Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden’ whisks readers to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, in the company of a delightful gang of scholars. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
There’s something about literary sisters. Siblings offer a unique, complex, and compelling relationship for novelists to explore, so it’s no surprise that so many novels have sisters at their heart. From Jane Austen’s loveable Bennett sisters in Pride and Prejudice, and Louisa May Alcott’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-08-13 08:49:04 UTC ]
It is a truth universally acknowledged . . . that the CW is developing an anthology series inspired by Jane Austen’s works! The series, titled Modern Austen, will tackle a different Jane Austen novel each season and reimagine it as six modern stories. Modern Austen’s first season will set Pride... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-13 16:26:19 UTC ]
Through the trials of new motherhood and the loss of a parent, Rachel Cohen read the English novelist exclusively. “Austen Years” is her memoir of the experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-21 09:00:08 UTC ]
Although it was the nineteenth century when the novel arguably came into its own, with novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters writing novels that are still widely read and studied today, the eighteenth century was the age in which the novel emerged as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2020-05-23 14:00:38 UTC ]
Long before Tinder, there was Jane Austen, warning your dates and their families that you looked nothing like your picture: in this instance, her subject was Mary Pearson, a portrait of whom has recently been discovered and acquired by Jane Austen’s House museum. Pearson, who likely inspired... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-07 15:55:45 UTC ]