How many years apart are Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland of Northanger Abbey? How Many Years are Henry Tilney and Catherine Morla...

Modified image of a Gerald Scharfe illustration for The New Yorker.** This is a first for Jane Austen Today, gentle readers, but I could...

How well do you know your Pride and Prejudice? The following quotes come from characters in the book. Who spoke these words? Extra points if...

Gentle readers, We all know how photoshopping has made us wary of the veracity of photographs, causing us to ask: Is what we see real? Or no...

It's April! Bonnet time. Which of the two 1816 bonnets would you choose to wear on a fine spring day? They were both featured in La Bell...

After watching this trailer, would you read Dreadfully Ever After , which is considered the best of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tri...

Today's question is simple and in honor of Sense and Sensibility's 200 years of publication: Will Marianne Dashwood ever grow up? D...

A miracle has happened, and you have been given an opportunity to attend Mr. Darcy's 40th birthday party. You have also just won the lot...

Jane Austen loved to dance, and she included many dancing scenes in her novels. In which of her gatherings would you have liked to dance? ...

Mrs. Ferrars, Jean Marsh While aware that almost all of Jane Austen's parents have their character flaws, I have chosen one parent wh...

We are in the throes of winter. During the Regency period, people moved around on the snow in sleds/sleighs, horse-drawn sleighs, or on skat...

Because so little is known about Jane Austen's life compared to other great authors, much information about her life and character remai...

This week's post asks you to examine the weapon Willoughby would have preferred when Colonel Brandon challenged him to a duel. The pract...

The holiday season is upon us. From now through New Year's we will all be faced with attending one fattening dinner gathering after ano...

Which casual entertainment described in Jane Austen's novels would interest you most? Card games, with food and drink and oonvivial co...

"Let deceitful lips be made dumb.." Mr. Elton, Emma, 2010 Of all the men in Jane Austen's life and novels, whose Sunday ser...

Earlier this month, Colin Firth (Mr. Darcy) and Hugh Grant (Edward Ferrars) turned 50 within one day of each other. Can you believe it? Give...

Mr. Elton admires Emma's pale drawing "A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the moder...

The settings that Jane Austen chose for her characters were important to her plot. Much of Northanger Abbey was set in Bath, Elizabeth and ...

One can almost count the contented marriages in Jane Austen's novels on one hand. The Gardiners from Pride and Prejudice and Admiral an...