From modern-day adaptations of her enduring classics to one that celebrates her iconic side characters, don't miss then Jane Austen-themed favorites

Harings says Lizzie is her favorite Austen character. "She has such sharp, sarcastic wit and she's so self-confident, despite the fact that she's constantly being put down by the people around her for her supposedly lower position in life as the slightly less pretty of the mother's two oldest daughters."

Happy birthday, Jane Austen! The beloved novelist, famous for writing Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, would have turned 250 years old on Dec. 16, 2025.

Jane Austen was born 250 years ago, and today, her relative is keeping her legacy alive through philanthropy. Caroline Jane Knight, Austen's fifth great niece, founded the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation in 2014,

LONDON -- Fans of Jane Austen celebrated the acclaimed author's 250th birthday on Tuesday with a church service in her home village, festive visits to her house — and a virtual party for those paying tribute from afar.

From a puzzle and fresh-scented candle to a Pride and Prejudice-inspired recipe book, these souvenirs are bound to put a smile on a Janiac's face.

A librarian who works at a school named in memory of the one where Jane Austen studied says she was "excited" to discover she had family connections to the author. Joanne Wenman works at The Abbey School in Reading, named after the Reading Abbey Gateway where Austen was educated from 1785.

Enduring romances such as "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility," and "Emma" made the British writer one of the brightest names in literature – and the beloved subject of a yearlong celebration marking the 250th anniversary of her birth.

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.”

Jane Austen's faith resonates with practical 21st-century Christianity, whose adherents are eager to put the Gospel into action. When you think about it, her Christian understanding is surprisingly contemporary.

Partygoers ditched pop music and booze for a string quartet and tea cakes at a dance in Glen Ellyn, kicking off a week of parties around the author’s 250th birthday.

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson