He has a funny name: Fitzwilliam Darcy. His occupation is even worse: "gentleman." (Ugh.) He's cold, aloof, stoic and proud to the point of arrogance. "Haughty, reserved and fastidious," in fact, are ...

A wet Mr Darcy, emerging from a lake, wearing a soaking white shirt. And while it wasn’t actually featured in Jane Austen’s original 1813 novel, Mr Darcy has remained a heartthrob ever since. A recent ...

What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offers a funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually terrifying.

Welcome to our Regency Thunderdome, where we will endeavor to answer this question once and for all. Credit... Supported by By Jennifer Harlan Sarah Lyall and Sadie Stein We’ve spent this year — some ...

Everyone has a go-to Mr. Darcy. Maybe yours is Colin Firth from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, or Matthew Macfadyen from the 2005 film — or Firth again, but in Bridget Jones’s Diary. And let’s not ...