The Latest Breaking News from Jane Austen

Jane Austen, regarded as one of the first rom-com authors, has had another classic adapted for the big screen again in Persuasion, a new period drama starring Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) as an 1800s woman with modern sensibilities who has a second chance to reconnect with the love…

Dakota Johnson’s lines in the film are infuriating Jane Austen fans

All sorts of women can be musical – or not – in Austen’s novels, it tells us something about each of them

Persuasion is now available to watch on Netflix

From Bridgerton to Lara Croft, stately homes are a fixture in TV and cinema

Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion stars 50 Shades of Grey's Dakota Johnson as a messy millennial who swigs wine from the bottle while lusting after her ex.

Film’s being called ‘a travesty’, ‘inexcusable’ and ‘torture’

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot. But it's a distinctly modern rom-com in terms of tone.

After ITV’s Austen adaptation Sanditon was cancelled, Rose Williams said goodbye to her character Charlotte Heywood. But then the fans mobilised, with petitions, letter writing and sand art, and the producers had a change of heart