Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.

From the Colin Firth-starring “Pride and Prejudice” to “Clueless” to “Persuasion,” filmmakers find endless inspiration in the books of Jane Austen. CNN spoke to Austen scholars about ...

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...

Persuasion is the last novel that Jane Austen completed and it was published posthumously in 1817. At the age of 19, Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a haughty baronet, ...

Ms. Scott and scholars like historian Gretchen Gerzina and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Danielle Christmas, who co-hosted the Jane Austen & Co. series “Race and the Regency ...

Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. July 14, 2022. 7 min. Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot in Netflix's “Persuasion.” (Nick Wall/Netflix) By Martine Powers.

Netflix's 'Persuasion' models the exact wrong way to adapt Jane Austen Sadly, especially for fans of the book, the new film badly fails in its quest to turn a social satire into a bubbly, quirky ...

The new adaptation of ” Persuasion, ” coming to Netflix Friday, does not seem to have been made for Jane Austen fans. Her book about the unmarried Anne Elliot, who at 27 is on the edge of ...

The Best Jane Austen Adaptations to Watch While You Wait for the New 'Persuasion' Movie. From Clueless to Fire Island, we love these Jane Austen screen adaptations ... most ardently ...