Jane Austen Media Reviews

Lady Susan Gets the Ending She Deserves?

Lady Susan Gets the Ending She Deserves? Now to a retelling of a different kind. Lady Susan, the epistolary novella Jane Austen wrote in her youth, will soon be coming to the cinemas in the form o...

Fashion and Mourning in Lady Susan

Fashion and Mourning in Lady Susan Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh, the costume designer for the film adaptation of Jane Austen's Lady Susan, has been speaking about the choices she made to show Lady Susa...

Feminist Lessons From Jane

Feminist Lessons From Jane Bustle's latest article in its series which have been focusing on the works of Jane Austen has moved away from quotes from each of the novels and has instead detailed a ...

John Mullan on Why We Need Plot

John Mullan on Why We Need Plot John Mullan, author of the book What Matters in Jane Austen?, has written an article for The Guardian talking about how many of the modern novels and media which ar...

Charlotte Rampling Starring in Film Adaptation of Sanditon

Charlotte Rampling Starring in Film Adaptation of Sanditon Charlotte Rampling, who has received an OBE for her services to the arts and who has previously played roles in hit period dramas such as...

Baby Names for Book Lovers

Baby Names for Book Lovers At the Jane Austen Centre we've had a fair few visitors who tell us that they were named after one of Jane's heroines, or that they themselves named one of their childre...

Is Jane Austen On A Bank Note A Bad Thing?

Is Jane Austen On A Bank Note A Bad Thing? Jane Austen fans were delighted to learn that Jane was going to be the person featured on the new £10 bank note in 2017, but The Guardian newspaper re...

The Fanny Price Wars

The Fanny Price Wars The Jane Austen News enjoyed reading a recent web publication from Marija Reiff at the University of Virginia. The fifteen page extract titled The "Fanny Price Wars": Jane A...

Mr Bingley and Bridget Jones

Mr Bingley and Bridget Jones While reading a recent article online about the similarities between Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones' Diary (e.g. both open with the words "it is a truth univer...

Mr Wickham - Unpunished?

Mr Wickham - Unpunished? Mr Wickham has been named by The Guardian as one of the most annoyingly unpunished characters in literature. He was beaten only by Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the C...

Stressed and Anxious?  Read Emma

Stressed and Anxious?  Read Emma Television producer, poet, and best-selling author, Daisy Goodwin, (author of the likes of The Fortune Hunter and My Last Duchess) has compiled her list of books t...