Jane Austen News

The Coralville Public Library will host a workshop on the social customs of writer Jane Austen's England at 2 p.m. Dec.

"Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing." - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is part of the Western canon, but what it really needs is additional canonnization.

My column title is a throwback to Jane Austen's famous first line in Pride and Prejudice Becky Jungbauer The Wall Street Journal published a list of 20 medical advances for which we should be thankful.

I wonder what that quiet clergyman's daughter would have thought about all the mash-ups, continuations, and imaginative treatments of her own life.

The Kanawha County Library is holding a Book Brawl to find out what's the favorite book of Kanawha County residents.

It's raining now, which is a relief after the awful week of early February weather in late November.

You should never judge a book by its cover, but should you judge a story by its title? If the recent success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is anything to go by, then for many readers today the answer is yes.

What do Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, and C.S. Lewis think about Jane Austen's novels? Find out in Susannah Carson's newly published anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS By Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. Quirk Books.

"Twilight: New Moon" is due out in t-minus three days. But how will you pass the time between "New Moon" and "Twilight: Eclipse?" We have some suggestions.

My column title is a throwback to Jane Austen's famous first line in Pride and Prejudice ... Full Bio Becky Jungbauer During the past few days, news media has inundated the U.S. public with word that for the first time in 20 years, a government task force has changed course in its recommendations for breast cancer screening.

My column title is a throwback to Jane Austen's famous first line in Pride and Prejudice Becky Jungbauer The word on the street is that Jesus is pretty t'd off at NASA.1 What mortal sin2 did the space agency allegedly commit? The non-biological reproduction of an RNA component in a laboratory, of course.

My column title is a throwback to Jane Austen's famous first line in Pride and Prejudice Becky Jungbauer Cancer research took a fascinating step forward thanks to recent research by a collaborative group from Boston; a step that, if it pans out, could impact a wide swath of cancer drug development.

Having always been sceptical about television's obsession with costume drama, I've never really understood what it must be like for the admirers of Jane Austen when, every two or three weeks, as it seems, a new production of Pride and Prejudice or Emma is announced.

Our Dutch correspondent Aad has sent a comprehensive e-mail with the latest releases of Austen-related films for Janeites in the Netherlands .

Caption: Carey Mulligan , Dominic Cooper and Emma Thompson Premiere of 'An Education' BFI 53rd London Film Festival London, England .... MULLIGAN: 'KNIGHTLEY IS MY BEST FRIEND' CAREY MULLIGAN counts KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as one of her dearest pals - even though she fell for her PRIDE & PREJUDICE co-star's beau RUPERT FRIEND on the film's set.

It seems everywhere today the favorite word is zombies: there are zombies in the theatres, with last month's release of the movie Zombieland , and in the bookstores, with last summer's rage for the hotly debated Zombified version of a Jane Austen Classic , and the upcoming cinematic adaptation of Max Brooks' World War Z . Even the University of ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an Austen aficionado in possession of the ability to create her own Austen adventure, must want to analyze the many differences between her beloved Austen novel and the unusual adaptation in question.

Who would not wish for a close relative like Aunt Jane? In early 1817, the year she died, suffering, perhaps, from lymphoma and beginning work on a novel she became too ill to finish, Jane Austen wrote a letter to her 8-year-old niece, Cassandra.

The extraordinary life, work, and legacy of one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Jane Austen , are the focus of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum from November 6, 2009, through March 14, 2010.