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We need to talk about those controversial new Jane Austen book covers

Is no author safe from the BookTok craze?

Creative Bloq · Feb 5, 2025

Plays from RSC, National and Almeida theatres in running for Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Plays join shortlist for prestigious international award honouring scripts by female, transgender and non-binary playwrights

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2025

I’ve Never Wanted Anyone More: Goethe adaptation feels more American Pie than high literature

José Lourenço’s film adaptation of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther opens with a line on screen stating it is “based on the smash hit 1774 novel of tragic romance”. Set in contemporary Canada, it revolves around Werther (Douglas Booth), who falls tragically…

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2025

Miss Austen episode 1 recap: doomed love

A recap of Miss Austen episode 1

WhatToWatch · Feb 2, 2025

In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines

3/5 There’s much to admire in this series about Jane and her sister Cassandra, who inexplicably burned many of the writer’s letters, but it cannot quite nail the great author’s piercing satire

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2025

Miss Austen on BBC One review: this Jane Austen origin story is slow as treacle

3/5 This split-timeline examination of the Austen sisters’ lives fails to get the pulse racing

Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2025

TV tonight: Keeley Hawes stars in a Jane Austen tale with a twist

The great literary mystery about the novelist’s burned letters unravels in this period drama. Plus: the dark days of Boyzone revealed. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025

How to watch 'Miss Austen' online from anywhere – stream Jane Austen historical drama

The Jane Austen multiverse finds yet another way to obsess about the nineteenth century novelist. Here's how to watch "Miss Austen" online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

Tom’s Guide · Feb 2, 2025

What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie…

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2025

Once more unto the breeches: the 20 best Jane Austen TV dramas – ranked!

Colin Firth in a wet shirt! Elizabeth Bennet as a YouTuber! As the BBC marks the author’s 250th anniversary with four-parter Miss Austen, we pick her finest television outings

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2025