Overview
- Today marks the author’s 250th birthday, with exhibitions, museum events, and an October statue near Winchester Cathedral joining her ongoing honor on the Bank of England £10 note.
- UK sales reached at least 78,000 copies in the first half of 2025, the highest since 2009, while the 2005 Pride and Prejudice re-release took in $7.5 million across nearly 1,400 cinemas.
- Netflix’s six-part Pride and Prejudice is slated for 2026 starring Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden, with Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, and Fiona Shaw among the cast.
- Focus Features has dated a new Sense and Sensibility for September 11, 2026 with Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, and George MacKay, as BritBox readies The Other Bennet Sister for spring and Peacock develops a Clueless reboot.
- Coverage underscores enduring foundations: six completed novels with four published in her lifetime and two posthumously, an initial period of anonymity, and renewed attention to the Anglican moral vision reflected in her fiction.