The Latest Breaking News from Jane Austen

The anarchic show that spawned the team behind sitcom treasure Ghosts is being given a Bafta for its ‘extraordinary impact’. Here are its 15 greatest moments

Marriage and dating in a cost-of-living crisis

A new Pride and Prejudice spin-off is coming to the BBC.

Collection being exhibited at Jane Austen’s House in Hampshire includes her brother Frank’s copy of Emma

Whether it's Jane Austen's early trailblazers or modern heroines, these women prove why girls really do run the world

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

I am 27 years old; I have no money and no prospects. I am already a burden for my parents, and I am frightened. So don’t judge me, Lizzie.

Adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrack

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom…