So universally beloved is Jane Austen that it’s hard to imagine a time when she wasn’t. Austen, who died in 1817 at 41, is now regarded as among the very greatest fiction writers in the English ...

Are you team Emma or team Elizabeth? Pro-Darcy or more enamoured of Captain Wentworth? There’s no escaping Jane Austen and the indelible mark her characters have left as the anniversary of her birth ...

Actor Idris Elba and Olympic ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean headline the New Year Honours list, also ...

The New Years Honours List for 2026 has been released. Idris Elba and ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean lead the ...

Big Jane Austen fans that we are, we're very excited about The Other Bennet Sister, the BBC adaptation of Janice Hadlow's novel – and we've finally got our first look at the upcoming new series.

If you're a Jane Austen fan, then Lizzy, Jane, Kitty and Lydia are likely to be the Bennet sisters you remember from Pride and Prejudice. But in a new follow-on to the story, it's their anxious and ...

Ella Bruccoleri, Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones, Indira Varma, Richard Coyle, Laurie Davidson and Dónal Finn star in the series L-R: Jane Bennet (Maddie Close), Lizzie Bennet (Poppy Gilbert), Mary ...

Attention, Jane Austen fans! The BBC has released a first look at its upcoming adaptation of The Other Bennet Sister – and viewers can't wait for this one to land on screens. Based on the 2020 novel ...

Why do I reread Jane Austen’s novels? I appreciate how the heroines exhibit grace and virtue during life’s joys and trials. These timeless tales are perfectly paired with a batch of scones and a good ...

Jane Austen only completed six novels during her lifetime. Four were published while she was alive, and two were published posthumously. Yet, 250 years later, we can’t stop adapting those same six ...