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Why does Jane Austen remain so popular? Because of craft, commerce, and common sense

December 18, 2025 10:45 am

On Jane Austen's 250th birth anniversary, we try to answer in 3 condensed points the subject of countless doctoral theses: just what is so great about her?

Jane Austen at 250: The world is observing the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. (Generated with the help of AI)

Jane Austen and Bollywood: A most agreeable match

December 27, 2025 6:06 pm

Why Jane Austen’s acute understanding of marriage, hierarchy, and moral agency continues to find its most fluent readers in South Asia.

Jane Austen’s words still dazzle, centuries on.

10 Jane Austen quotes that sparkle with wit and wisdom

October 11, 2025 11:31 am

Ten timeless Jane Austen quotes that prove wit and wisdom never go out of style.

The marriage market that Austen satirises, with its expectation of dowries, inheritance, and class mobility, is strikingly familiar to us in the Indian subcontinent.

From Delhi to Dorset: Reading Jane Austen across continents

September 01, 2025 3:08 pm

250 years of Jane Austen: Chaotic households, prescriptive gender roles, women striving to exercise moral agency, and even courtship rituals staged through song, dance, and spectacle make the author an enduring presence in the Indian subcontinent.

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Austen’s Jane is the friend you need

August 03, 2025 6:57 am

Elizabeth is the favourite of her dad, the intelligent, witty parent, while throughout the book, Jane is taking care of their mother, the petulant, embarrassing parent. While Elizabeth goes vacationing with her aunt and uncle, it is Jane who is best suited to “play with, teach, and love” their four small children.

Pride and Prejudice back in cinemas: Lizzy is delightful, but Jane Bennet is the friend you need. Here's why

December 18, 2025 8:01 pm

Pride and Prejudice: Movie adaptations have often flattened Jane Bennet. But the strong, kind girl, who refused to perform and was forever willing to pass the mic, is the heroine we need today.

A portrait of Jane Austen, surrounded by the covers of four books that are inspired by her iconic book Pride and Prejudice

Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet were the original situationship — that’s why we are still obsessed with ‘Pride and Prejudice’

September 02, 2025 1:28 am

As Netflix starts production on its new adaptation, the Jane Austen classic remains in rotation because it adapts. Its characters grow, its structure flexes, its emotions stay grounded. It is not a fairytale; it is a mirror

Austen but not Austen: 8 brilliant retellings of Pride and Prejudice for modern Janeites

December 15, 2025 8:39 pm

This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. If you have already devoured her complete works and then some, and still find yourself yearning for more, here are seven modern novels inspired by her work to add to your reading list.

'It is a truth universally acknowledged....' Jane Austen wrote the most perfect opening line - and we've been spoofing it ever since!

December 15, 2025 8:41 pm

Drawing a line: It has been repurposed for everything from zombie parodies to Bridget Jones’s self-deprecating diary

One of the earliest in existence, Jane Austen's letter to her sister to go on public display

March 19, 2023 12:40 pm

The letter, dated 1798, is one of the 160 that have survived, and have come to Cheffins Auctioneers through a Cambridge resident's estate who acquired it in 2000.