Jane Austen knew at least two childless couples who adopted young girls and made them their heirs. There was Lord Mansfield, the great abolitionist judge, who adopted his niece Lady Elizabeth Murray.

Where to watch the Jane Austen movie Jane Austen Wrecked My Life: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life will only be available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. wide on Friday, May 30.

With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (Jane Austen a gâché ma vie) is not your average rom-com nor your average dose of literary cottagcore. It follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford), an awkward, aspiring ...

Jane Austen didn’t wreck her life, rather, she opened it up to the possibilities that were right in front of her. Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

Masterpiece on PBS’s Miss Austen is based on Gill Hornby’s novel of the same name, which is, in turn, based on the real Jane Austen, Cassandra Austen, and their friends and relatives.

But, if Jane Austen does wreck all of our lives just a little bit, this movie believes in the power of shooting for that type of romance anyway. With strong performances and achingly lovely ...

7 Reasons You Need to Watch Miss Austen Jane Austen fans— Janeites —clear your schedule! You are going to devour this romantic and heartwarming miniseries based on Gill Hornby’s bestseller.

A pleasant, low-friction bit of romantic fiction, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the first feature from writer-director Laura Piani. In her mid-20s, Piani worked in Paris in the venerable ...

Miss Austen will air in four episodes on MASTERPIECE on PBS starting Sunday, May 4, 2025, 9/8c. The timing is nothing less than thrilling as 2025 also marks 250 years since Jane Austen was born.