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 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.

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 ...

The Alicia Silverstone comedy, which just turned 30, tops our list of adaptations based on the works of the English writer — and she's turning 250!

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 ...

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.

Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since the writer's birth with a series of celebrations – including Georgian costume balls, where attendees try out period dancing.

Reading too much Austen may have us longing for outcomes the author was too wise to wish on her characters. An illustration for Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ by Charles Edmund Brock.

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.

William Deresiewicz’s 2005 book, “ Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets,” describes the different phases of Austen’s writing career; its 2011 follow-up, “A Jane Austen Education: How Six ...