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

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

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

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…

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

Exclusive: ‘There is no hierarchy of terrorism,’ says Alex Chalk QC after outrage over neo-Nazi sentenced to read Austen

Court of Appeal finds decision to suspend Ben John’s original prison sentence was unlawful