For generations people have turned to the works of Jane Austen for comfort and wisdom. In Cocktails with Miss Austen, authors from around the world describe some of the lessons they have learned from her—things like perseverance and constancy, how to define the word heroine for yourself, and the joy of platonic friendships. Here we look at some of the most valuable life lessons in Jane’s writing. On love… “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Perso

In the first of a series of posts featuring the authors of Cocktails with Miss Austen, we visit Jaime Lilleen Uranovsky to see what she and Jane would get up to in South Africa. If Jane joined me for a cocktail we'd probably have it in the little bookstore where I work. I have a key, so I’d let us in after closing time (Don’t tell my boss, please). We could sit on the floor, put on some Fall Out Boy, sip on our drinks. I recently discovered gin and tonic and I know Jane loved

Jane Austen is many things to many people, but have you thought of her as any of the following before? Perhaps you'll see her in a whole new light. A champion for platonic friendships Long before When Harry met Sally Jane was writing about friendships between men and women. Although, unlike Harry, Jane shows us men and women can be friends. As Maria Jerinic writes in Cocktails with Miss Austen, ‘Austen paints pictures of friendship between men and women that are 'uncomplicate