I WAS a fan of Jane Austen long before Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice. I’d read all her novels and fancied finding a Mr Darcy of my own — the bigger his stately ...
The highlight on the schedule are two six-day programmes – one in spring and one in autumn – based at the elegant five-star Gainsborough, delving into every corner of Jane Austen’s life in Bath.
FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at Jane Austen Day. December 16 is Jane Austen's birthday, a day dedicated to celebrating her life and achievements, and to telling as many ...
Today, two hundred and forty-nine years after her birth, the British novelist Jane Austen is more popular now than she was in her time, as evidenced by the countless theatre, television ...