Jane Austen remains a prevalent figure in reading circles even today with her thrillingly alliterating plot, witty charismatic female protagonist, and Georgian vicarages alongside country walks.

It really is heartwarming to see our all time favourite classic novels written by women on the big screen. In many cases these have been made, and remade. Many of the most successful award-winning movies originate from classic literature novels. Little women is a good example. Here are more. 1. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen, […]

Austen’s novels are mainly centred on themes of family and love. And Modern Austen will be exploring these themes in the present world of inequalities and disconnections.

Each time you read Jane Austen’s books you discover new things you haven’t noticed before, subtleties and connections and they are inexhaustible.

A few centuries down the line, Jane Austen’s dictum that a single man in possession of an income would be on the lookout for a wife, is getting a makeover and how. Contrary to the earlier norm where the man was considered the primary bread winner, and the woman in the marriage merely brought in […]

Laaleen Sukhera discovered Jane Austen on her 12th birthday when her aunt gifted her a set of the author’s books. Having read a couple of classics by then,  Austen intrigued her like no other. A journalist by profession, Sukhera is the founder of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) and the editor and contributor […]

A few feminist female fictional characters we love, care to add to the list?