It is the starting point, too, for Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, adapted now as a four ... lovingly evoked (even if the hair and make-up department take a rather more modern approach).

Legions of “Janeites” will spend 2025—the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth—truffle-hunting for undiscovered morsels in the life and work of English literature’s most famous ...