Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.

Jane Austen fans are set to lose their fight to save a historic hotel where the novelist spent her 18th birthday as plans to turn it into student flats are given the go ahead.

Edward Austen Knight’s personal copy of the first-edition, four-volume set of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion forms part of the collection at Jane Austen’s House, in Chawton, Hampshire. Austen ...

The moment the trailer for the 2022 film version of “Persuasion” was released, Jane Austen purists rose up in collective indignation. The release of the movie confirmed the fans’ misgivings ...

From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about ...

Anne Elliot, the heroine of Jane Austen’s book Persuasion, is a woman of strong feelings.The persistent, if muted, sadness Anne suffers at the start of the novel is certainly all-encompassing ...

American librettist and performer Barbara Landis admits doing a stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion in England is something of a working holiday. She’s in Bath (where else?) when she ...