This year is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth. As well as Miss Austen, the BBC has commissioned The Other Bennet Sister, a Pride and Prejudice spin-off drama about Mary Bennet based on ...

The village where Jane Austen was born 250 years ago has staged a fair to celebrate. The Jane Austen Country Fair in ...

Alistair Pegg, Commissioning Editor, BBC Arts said: “Jane Austen is timeless, but the 250th anniversary of her birth this year is the perfect moment to reflect on her extraordinary achievement.

Don’t dismiss Austen’s novels as satires of another era. From how her characters ‘game’ the system to their desire to marry for love, her plots, and advice, remain highly useful today.

Jane Austen scholar Kathryn Sutherland examines the trends in Austen productions from early cinema to the small screen Austen's Hollywood breakthrough came in 1940 with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s ...

Her novels may be mischaracterised as romantic escapism, but at their core, they have a lot to say about perseverance – and it makes them perfect reading for now, writes Heloise Wood.

Miss Austen is a beautiful story about the love between two sisters, Jane Austen - one of our most revered and brilliant novelists - and her sister Cassandra. Very little is known about Cassandra ...

Even Jane Austen devotees often haven’t read her final – and unfinished – novel. But ever since Austen’s death 200 years ago, many writers have taken it upon themselves to complete.

A first for radio. The proposal scene from Pride and Prejudice was first of Jane Austen's works to be broadcast on the radio at 19.30 on the 15 January 1924 on '2L0', the BBC's first radio station ...

Similarly, the 10-day Jane Austen Regency Week (20-29 June) will include a Regency Day with stalls and entertainment guests can peruse, followed by a ribbon cutting on a new public Jane Austen Garden.

Dance teacher Lottie Adcock says an increasing number of people are learning "Jane Austen dancing". The museum says the purchase was made using cash given to enhance its collections. The shirt ...