Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...

It is a universally acknowledged truth that in the time around Valentine’s Day, everyone, whether single, in a couple or exploring the “it’s complicated” tag, will inadvertently revert to a romcom to ...

The novels portrayed the working woman of the Nineties as a hot mess. By laughing at her, we laughed at ourselves.