Jane Austen signed up for Facebook game – The Guardian

Continuing the vogue for modern updates of her fiction, a new Jane Austen game is set to launch on Facebook. Whether players who make their way through a virtual Regency society will suffer the indignity of the social network’s trademark courtship signal of “poking” remains to be seen. The Rogues and Romance game, developed by [...]

Wooing Mr. Wickham

Inspired by Jane Austen’s heroes and villains, this contemporary short-story anthology has been selected by Michele Roberts from the Jane Austen Short Story Competition 2011 run by Chawton House Library. ‘When a young lady is to be a heroine… Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.’ Or, if she is [...]

No telling where she’s going to turn up…

We have the starchy guy — tall, handsome, intelligent and rich, with a baronial estate — who’s hard to warm up to. And we have the spontaneous guy, who’s charming and easy to warm up to — until it turns out that he has an unsavory pattern with young women and a suspect relationship with [...]

P. D. James Adds Dark Twist to Pride and Prejudice…Murder

Set in 1803 at Pemberley, the Darcy family estate, five years after Austen concluded her original story, James’ new novel finds Elizabeth and Darcy happily married, with two fine sons, and enjoying regular visits from Elizabeth’s sister Jane and her husband Bingley. There is talk about the prospect of marriage for Darcy’s sister Georgiana, lingering [...]

Which is your favorite — Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice? A Battle of Wits

Dr. Paula Marantz Cohen, best–selling author of Jane Austen in Boca and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper and Distinguished Professor at Drexel University will debate with Dr. Elisabeth Lenckos, Instructor of Comparative Literature at University of Chicago’s Basic Program and Jane Austen Society of North America [...]

What Can Jane Austen Do For Me?

A memoir of how Jane Austen’s novels transformed one reader’s life, and a study of why we still read the “Lady novelist.” In 1990, William Deresiewicz was on his way to gaining a Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia University. Describing that time in the opening pages of his sharp, endearingly self-effacing new book, “A [...]

He thinks he’s better than Jane Austen: What do you think?

VS Naipaul finds no woman writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen. VS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors, saying there is no woman writer whom he considers his equal – [...]

Sense and Sensibility. . .

Don’t forget the Basic Program’s Autumn Symposium on Sense & Sensibility and the Culture of Sympathy, Saturday, October 29, 2011, celebrating the bicentennial of the novel’s publication. If you’re thinking about attending and might want to brush up on Austen’s novels and their background in advance, you may want to consider Jane Austen, Human Nature, [...]

A Jane Austen Education

From the beginning, my love for Jane Austen had been intertwined with my love for the professor with whom I had first encountered her. He was the one who had taught the seminar where I read Emma, he was the one who had shepherded me through my oral exams, and now he would be the [...]

’Dreadfully Ever After’: Best of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trilogy – Denver Zombie | Examiner.com

The third and final chapter in the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trilogy was released today from Quirk Books. Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith chronicles the continuing misadventures of the brave Bennett sisters in zombie-stricken England as they fight to destroy the undead scourge and live happily ever after with the men of their [...]

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