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What: Mansfield Park Where: Settlers Country Manor When: Sunday Reviewer: William Dart Jane Austen herself might well have enjoyed NZ Opera’s Mansfield Park,...

In case you’re planning a reread or want to venture into Austen’s novels for the first time, here’s a complete guide to all of her works.

My first literary crush, as a preadolescent, was on Edward Fairfax Rochester, the sarcastic, beetle-browed hero of Jane Eyre, who formed my early beau ideal of what a romantic partner would be. Decades later, rereading Charlotte Bronte’s novel, I was taken aback to rediscover the scene where Rochester dresses up as a palm-reading “old crone” in a bonnet and cape and creepily interrogates Jane on her love life. Strange dude!Romantic archetypes in literature, argues English pr...

A new book excavates Mr. Darcy’s vast influence on literary and pop culture—and our romantic lives.

Mansfield Park at Waterperry Festival proves that a splendid evening of opera needn't cost the earth. Jane Austen would have approved