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A new three-part BBC documentary does an absorbing job of demonstrating how intermingled were her life and work: a widowed ...
Author Gill Hornby and executive producer Christine Langan spoke about adapting Hornby's novel for television and why readers ...
Keeley Hawes shines as Cassandra Austen in 'Miss Austen,' a PBS Masterpiece limited series adaptation of Gill Hornby's novel ...
Rather than projecting our own concerns, we should look at what she was reading and how she engaged with the ideas of her ...
Masterpiece's new historical drama Miss Austen is an uneven exploration of the life of the less famous sister of Jane Austen. Read our review.
Jane Austen has inspired a great deal of modern film, ranging from straightforward adaptations of her novels to modernised versions, Bollywood variations.
Inspired by the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ author, an eight-day trek through the English countryside from Oxford to Bath wasn’t ...
This Bafta-award-winning film is based on Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name. From director Roger Michell, it stars Amanda ...
From bonnets to ballgowns to Beverly Hills, Jane Austen's formidable heroines remain as sharp, stubborn, and unforgettable as ...
And we see frequent flashbacks to earlier times, in which a younger ... Much of “Miss Austen” has the agreeable familiarity of a Jane Austen novel: the groups of women in drawing rooms ...
Anointed “the queen of British telly” overseas, the actress leads a series about Austen’s prim older sister, who torched most of the writer’s letters. Anointed “the queen of British ...