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Marriage and dating in a cost-of-living crisis

They won't tell you off for slacking exactly, but they will give you data to prove you weren't in 'high-focus' mode for as long today –and it'll make you see how readily we make things too hard for ourselves.

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…

What does it mean to be a reader in Jane Austen’s novels? And what does it mean to read them? Susan Allen Ford, longtime editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journals, confesses to perhaps 25 years of fascination with her subject.