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Netflix, Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice

Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.
Jane Austen’s novels might thrive on the enemies to lovers trope, but Twitter isn’t quite at the lovers stage when it comes to Netflix’s adaptation of Persuasion, starring Dakota Johnson.
Jane Austen Turns in Her Grave,” a headline in the Daily Mail read. Cracknell, 41, speaking on a video call from her London home, doesn’t see it that way.
It’s an act braver than marrying for love, riskier than running away with Mr. Wickham and plainer than Anne Elliot to adapt Jane Austen’s beloved, essential books for the screen.
Jane Austen was a very funny writer, but she was also a woman who knew the pain of a broken heart. Persuasion is her ode to the broken-hearted.
Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. July 14, 2022 More than 2 years ago 7 min Summary ...
Austen’s last full novel, “Persuasion,” published months after her death, is steeped in longing (or pining, as romance aficionados call it), as the two protagonists – Anne and Capt ...
The 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park changes some things about Austen's 1814 novel, namely making colonialism and slavery one of its centerpieces, adding in a few scenes that would be considered ...
Sense And Sensibility Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen – Persuasion PBS, Sun. Jan. 13, 9 p.m. Production: Filmed in the U.K. by Clerkenwell Films for ITV in association with WGBH Boston.