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Best Regency romance novels for your collection

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Evening Standard

3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views

More than two centuries after Jane Austen died in 1817, many of the English novelist’s fans want to know her takes on her day’s big issues, including race, colonialism and slavery.

The Conversation

A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel audiobook review – preoccupations of a vibrant mind

Actor Lydia Leonard and novelist Anne Enright are among the narrators of the Wolf Hall author’s engaging essays on Madonna, Jane Austen and Princess Diana

The Guardian - UK

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Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

The Conversation

Sense and Sensibility review – lack of decorum drains tension from Austen adaptation

A shapeless staging and knockabout jokes detract from the emotional heft of this tale of thwarted love

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Grace: ‘Being killed off in Lost is still the worst heartbreak of my career’

The ‘Lost’ star – who was famously kidnapped in the Liam Neeson thriller ‘Taken’ – speaks to Adam White about anglophilia, playing damsels in distress, and the time she convinced Christopher Nolan she was British

The Independent UK

The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Persuasion to Pride and Prejudice

Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the BBC’s 1995 TV series ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which catapulted Colin Firth to fame. Charlotte Cripps picks the biggest successes on the 250th birthday of the English literary titan

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Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much

The Guardian - UK

Jane Austen fans despair at student digs plan for hotel where she danced

Devotees of author from Britain and the US lobby Southampton council to reject proposals for historic Dolphin building

The Guardian - UK

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

Salon

Bridgerton season three – all the usual froth, but a more mature edge as Regency fears of spinsterhood explored

Note this piece contains spoilers for seasons two and three of Bridgerton

The Conversation

"College was called 'Babylon'"

In her memoir "Rift," author Cait West describes Christian radicalism that is scarily powerful in the modern GOP

Salon

Jane Austen museum appeals to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir

Curators launch campaign after acquiring 78-page document that could hold new information about author

The Guardian - UK

‘You can’t always win in this industry’: Theo James on fame, Guy Ritchie and the actor’s hustle

The actor found fame as the cocky finance bro in The White Lotus. Now, as he stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, he talks to Tim Lewis about being ‘irritatingly competitive’, giving up music for acting – and whether James Bond really is on the horizon...

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Digested week: Can the monarchy survive the Kate photo fiasco? It probably can

Could this national madness have been Meghan’s revenge? Plus, questions about chafing and a vet bills shock

The Guardian - UK

‘Bring back Thatcher’: voters in ‘blue wall’ voice scepticism before budget

Trip through M3 corridor’s traditionally Conservative seats finds distrust of politicians and discontent over range of issues

The Guardian - UK

Colin Firth’s wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells for £20,000

Clothing worn by actor in 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen novel goes for double expected amount at auction

The Guardian - UK

Winchester plan for £100,000 Jane Austen statue triggers ‘Disneyfication’ fears

People at public meeting raise concerns that sculpture in cathedral grounds will attract tourists taking selfies

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Spring flowers: 10 of the best places in the UK to see them bloom

Witch hazel and snowdrops, hellebores and daffodils – with the country set to burst into bloom, we find the best of the season’s first offerings

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Anne Hathaway: The Iconic Transformations That Defined Her Movies

Discover Anne Hathaway's top 10 unforgettable movie makeovers! From drastic transformations to subtle changes, see how she morphs for the sake of her roles.

The Guardian - UK

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen audiobook review – the pursuit of love

Nicola Coughlan brings new life and nuance to Austen’s story of poverty-stricken sisters

WEKU

Hallmark recasts 'Sense and Sensibility' and debuts other Austen-inspired films

This month, the network debuts Loveuary, a quartet of films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly Black lead cast.

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