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The Latest Breaking News from Jane Austen

"Sanditon" boss on heartbreaking finale

Justin Young spoke with Salon about continuing Jane Austen with unexpected setbacks, character arcs and fandom

Salon

Karla Peterson: Thanks to San Diego writer Amy Finley, you can have your 'Bridgerton' and drink it, too

SAN DIEGO — You can't dress like them, even if you were willing to don the required undergarments. You can't dine like them, unless you have a generous staffing budget and an over-achieving metabolism. (So! Many! Cakes!) And you can't duel like them, no matter how much you loathe your…

Tribune News Service

Persuasion review: Ruthlessly 21st-century Austen retelling is tons of riotous fun

Jeff James’s adaptation has voguing and a foam party - but doesn’t interrogate the novel’s more retrograde gender politics

Evening Standard

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I’ll bet someone else’s shirt that Diego Maradona’s is real…

The Argentinian’s kit, now up for auction despite his daughter questioning its authenticity, Colin Firth’s top … many would like to own a piece of history and good luck to anyone selling

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?; The Superhero Complex; Hear Her Voice; Cheat!

French and Saunders front an old-school gagfest, while podcasting’s obsession with egotistical frauds and con artists continues

The Guardian - UK

Camilla tours Jane Austen’s home and sees Mr Darcy’s famous white shirt

The Duchess of Cornwall toured the Hampshire home where Austen lived from 1809 to 1817.

The Independent UK

Jane Austen replaced on literature course by American author Toni Morrison to 'decolonise' curriculum

American Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner author takes her place

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Less Bridgerton & Sanditon sex is better

Despite the public outcry, viewers of Regency-era dramas are fine with fewer sex scenes, if it means more romance

Salon

From a hearty cookbook to chilling crime: Eight new books to keep you turning pages

As the weather grows chillier by the day, there’s no better time to start stocking up on your autumn reads, with books from comedy to a hearty cookbook.

The New Daily

Nina Metz: ‘Bridgerton’s’ racial utopia on Netflix vs. the reality of Britain’s imperialism

“Bridgerton” was a smash for Netflix when it premiered last year, and Season 2 of the historical romance, based on author Julia Quinn’s book series, has once again swept viewers up in its semi-winking Regency-era evocation of heaving breasts and smoldering stares, set against a backdrop of ballrooms and country…

Chicago Tribune

Bridgerton season 2 review: So different they might as well have renamed the entire show

The central dilemma (and the very attractive couple seeking to resolve it) of the first season has been excised, giving this opening episode – ‘Capital-R-Rake’ – the feeling of a spin-off

The Independent UK

Bridgerton season 2 review: So different they might as well have renamed the entire show

The central dilemma (and the very attractive couple seeking to resolve it) of the first season has been excised, giving this opening episode – ‘Capital-R-Rake’ – the feeling of a spin-off

The Independent UK

Bridgerton season 2 review: So different they might as well have renamed the entire show

The central dilemma (and the very attractive couple seeking to resolve it) of the first season has been excised, giving this opening episode – ‘Capital-R-Rake’ – the feeling of a spin-off

The Independent UK

Anthony Bridgerton gets his Colin Firth moment in the new season... and we love it

As the hit Netflix drama returns, Olivia Petter outlines how one of its standout scenes pays homage to a cultural phenomenon

The Independent UK

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Marie Claire

17 Shows Like 'Bridgerton' to Watch Next

If you already binged the first half of season 4, don't worry: Even more gossipy period dramas are streaming.

The Independent UK

Anthony Bridgerton gets his Colin Firth moment in the new season... and we love it

As the hit Netflix drama returns, Olivia Petter outlines how one of its standout scenes pays homage to a cultural phenomenon

The Guardian - UK

Mr Darcy’s white shirt from lake scene stars in Jane Austen exhibition

Garment worn by Colin Firth in 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice to go on show at Jane Austen’s House

The Independent UK

Bridgerton season 2 review: So different they might as well have renamed the entire show

The central dilemma (and the very attractive couple seeking to resolve it) of the first season has been excised, giving this opening episode – ‘Capital-R-Rake’ – the feeling of a spin-off

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Marie Claire

The 70 Best Chick Flick Movies Ever

Grab the popcorn and wine.

Salon

A less sexy "Sanditon" returns

PBS' new season picks up where the first left off, with its Austen heroine still sunny & determined to stay single

The Independent UK

Bridgerton review, season two: So different they might as well have renamed the entire show

The central dilemma (and the very attractive couple seeking to resolve it) of the first season has been excised, giving this opening episode – ‘Capital-R-Rake’ – the feeling of a spin-off

Evening Standard

International Women’s Day: 20 of the most significant women in history

From Margaret Thatcher to Princess Diana, here are the world’s most influential women throughout history

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Woven Air': Bangladesh Revives Elite Forgotten Fabric

With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history. Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in European parlors held that a change in the light or…

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Cyrano' an intertwined love story both on screen, behind camera

Director Joe Wright has tackled many of the great literary love stories on screen, the ones that we return to again and again for their beauty and their pain, from Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” to Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” His latest romantic literary screen adaptation is “Cyrano,” another tale of…

The Guardian - UK

May I have a word about… the planned incinerator near Jane Austen’s house

The proposal is bad enough, but does it have to be couched in such dreadful language?

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