Movies
As part of its “Complete Jane Austen” series, coming to you via the venerable “Masterpiece Theater” -- or “Masterpiece,” as it seems to be less called now -- PBS is airing “Miss Austen Regrets,” a BBC-sprung biopic with a title that references Cole Porter.
Feb. 1, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Quick Takes
July 15, 2011
Travel & Experiences
Yes, Sandy Lerner Posed Nude on a Horse. But Her Cosmetics Company Is Hot Stuff, and She’s Got Enough Money to Buy Jane Austen’s Ancestral Home in England. If You Don’t Like It, Get a Life.
March 1, 1998
Books
English fiction flows from Jane Austen’s pelisse as surely as Russian fiction does from Gogol’s overcoat.
Nov. 23, 1997
Culture Monster Blog
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July 30, 2011
Margaret Lane, 86, biographer of authors Beatrix Potter, Samuel Johnson and the Bronte sisters.
Feb. 26, 1994
Archives
Austen Seaholm looks like any other 14-year-old on a skateboard: black T-shirt adorned with a skate industry logo, obligatory baggy blue jeans that make his slender build appear even skinnier.
Jan. 26, 2001
Whatever most excites the traveler--literature or paleontology, art or history, Jane Austen or Meryl Streep--this tiny seaside resort on the border of Devon and Dorset counties is a town for all reasons.
Nov. 25, 1990
Straddling centuries in the Roman spa town where Jane Austen sojourned and was inspired to tweak the gentry’s grand illusions
Feb. 20, 2000
Monica Ali returned with “Love Marriage,” a contemporary comic novel about an engaged interracial couple on a rocky road to their nuptials.
Dec. 10, 2022