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With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named ...
Camille Rutherford stars in 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,' Laura Piano's directorial debut rom-com about a bookseller who attends a writers' retreat.
A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...
Repressed passions, thwarted ambitions and Empire-waisted gowns aren’t just Regency-era relics in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” a low-tonnage pleasure bomb aimed straight at anyone who ...
Sure, you’re familiar with Cassandra Austen, but what about Mary, Isabella, or Eliza? Here’s how everyone’s connected in the Masterpiece show.
The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography (Courtesy of Black Dog & Leventhal) As with the graphic novel, Barchas’ earlier Austen projects might be labeled non-academic pursuits.
Bath, an hour’s drive east of Bristol, on the northern tip of Somerset, has a heaving calendar of events in 2025 to celebrate Austen and her work. The annual Jane Austen Festival is set to hold ...
On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...
In the case of Austen’s predecessors, too, there is a “happily ever after”: if you have ever wished Jane Austen had written more books, a bookshelf full of her favourite writers is just ...
To coincide with the author's 250th birthday, Sutherland is organising an exhibition in Oxford called "Dancing with Jane Austen" with costumes from the films and examples of her writings about balls.
Contributor and author Helen Fielding on how heartbreak inspired Jane Austen to write Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen is timeless, but the 250th anniversary of her birth this year is the perfect ...
Here, we present ten of her most insightful quotes, each uniquely profound, offering lessons on love, life, and wisdom that still resonate today. 10 insightful quotes from Jane Asuten's novels 1.