Austen Information

The enormous popularity of Jane Austen's novels has led to many movie and television adaptions of her novels, beginning with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice, continuing to the nearly legendary wet shirt of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC mini-series, and now including Bollywood musicals and zombies. In recent years, there has been an explosion of popular novels based on Jane Austen and her works. Austen.com hosts a collection of resources about the great British writer Jane Austen (1775-1817). Her novels center on the lives of young women in middle class Regency England, and every novel ends with a happy marriage or two. But don't expect simple love stories in all of Jane Austen's works. As an unmarried woman of very modest financial means, Jane Austen understood the hopes and fears of women who had to rely on marriage and family connections to provide them with a home and means to live. Miss Austen was fortunate in having the support of her family and a successful literary career, but she knew how easy it would be to become a tedious Miss Bates, a pitiable Jane Fairfax, or a sickly and forgotten Mrs Smith. With the departure of Dwiggie, a wonderful repository of fan fiction, we are now looking for new content producers who would like to help maintain this . We had 10 terrific years with the Dwiggies but they decided to move on and now we need to breathe some fresh air in to Austen.com. We're seeking an individual or group who loves Jane Austen who would like to volunteer to maintain and grow this site for love or money or both. We are also the host of firth.com , a fan site for the award winning actor who has played the role of Darcy in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Austen.com hosts the texts of Jane Austen's novels and lists of other resources on Jane Austen, her works , and Regency England . We also host the popular and useful Basic HTML Tag Tutorial . Time line of major events in Miss Austen's life: Jane Austen is born in Steventon, Hampshire, ...