‘I wonder what Jane Austen’s Instagram may be like if she was writing today’

There’s been zombies, Colin Firth soaked in a lake wearing a white shirt and countless adaptations of one of literature’s most appreciated writers – and now there’s a graphic novel to impress Jane Austen fans Jane Austen In the 250th anniversary year of her birth, Janeites — devotees of Austen’s work — will be no doubt be sharing their love for the author. An academic (and Austen fan) has teamed up with an illustrator to publish The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography, a much layered approach to the author many think they know..