City of Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse opened the evening of Feb. 4 by reflecting on the festival’s growth over the years. Comparing its humble beginnings to its current stature, Rowse praised its ...

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

T he 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English writer published ...

Despite her skills at writing about love and romance enduring for centuries, Jane remained unmarried until her untimely day ...

Keeley Hawes shot to fame when she played Zoe Reynolds in the BBC series Spooks and has gone on to star in Line of Duty and ...

"Loveuary" has been a tradition at the cable network since 2015, with Hallmark typically releasing romance-themed movies ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...

Jane Austen is a lifestyle!” a young woman wearing a Pemberley slogan sweater tells me over Zoom, her passion palpable ...

The question is at the heart of new BBC drama Miss Austen, which is based on Gill Hornby's novel of the same name, and ...

Retrace the novelist's childhood haunts, visit the grand country piles that inspired her six novels or recreate the best ...

Spotlights pierced the rainy skies Tuesday night to declare the start of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.  The Arlington Theatre was packed ...