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Jane Austen
July 15, 2022
Philippa Snow
Netflix’s Persuasion Is a Uniquely Brilliant Flavor of Bad
A new Jane Austen adaptation dares to ask: What if “Persuasion” took place not just in the early nineteenth century but at wine o’clock?
September 16, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Personal History of David Copperfield and Emma Are Perfect Movies for a Pandemic
Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.
July 24, 2018
Jeet Heer
A debauched prince was the first person to buy a Jane Austen novel.
August 15, 2017
MagazineElaine Showalter
The Austenista
Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?
July 18, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen
What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?
January 27, 2014
Michael Suk-Young Chwe, William Deresiewicz
Can You Apply Game Theory to Jane Austen?
October 5, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Jane Austen’s cult, Ikea’s invisible women, and virtual money: Today’s TNR Reader
October 9, 2006
Ross Douthat, Damon Linker
American Catholicism
March 16, 2005
Christopher Orr
Class Notes
January 30, 1924
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen
A review of the publication of R.W. Chapman’s edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Five Volumes.
August 31, 1918
Philip Littell
Charlotte Brontë Discovered the Plain Heroine

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