I hope you are enjoying the beginning of spring! Here in Los Angeles the temperatures are rising and everyone seems to have spring fever...

"...before she had been five minutes within its walls...she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now j...

Last week I was reminded of the satisfaction of seeing a truly great film. It was "Sense and Sensibility" on the big screen at ...

The 200th-Anniversary Annotated Emma , Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition "I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman...

Are you looking for the perfect little something to give your literary friends? You know, the ones with their noses in a book? You might ...

" The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much !...

Why do we still read Jane Austen? I asked myself that question when I started reading Northanger Abbey recently. Within the first ...

" Donwell was famous for its strawberry-beds, which seemed a plea for the invitation: but no plea was necessary; cabbage-beds would ...

Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike in the 2005 film "Pride and Prejudice" It is interesting to think about Jane Austen and w...

Happy Anniversary, Jane Austen!  Congratulations on the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice," the book that you called y...

" Nothing I like better than a baked apple ."   --  Jane Austen, "Emma" Amy Traverso has written a new cookbo...

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings o...

" They had a very fine day for Box Hill...Nothing was wanting but to be happy when they got there.  Seven miles were travelled in expe...