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Jane Austen

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Jane Austen 1775-1817

Jane Austen is one of Britain's best loved novelists and is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.  Jane wrote six novels during her short lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Her novels are powerful, romantic works of fiction, and her intelligent and rather wry wit shows through in her strong heroines and appealing heroes.

Jane was born in the English village of Steventon in Hampshire in 1775.  Her father was a clergyman and Jane and her seven brothers and sister lived with her parents in a modest rectory.  When Jane was 16 the family moved to Bath - a fashionable location in Regency times - and much of her writing revolves around Bath.

Jane started to write from an early age but at the time writing was not considered a suitable occupation for a lady so all of her novels were first published anonymously.

Sense and Sensibility

The first of Jane's novels Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811. This tells the story of two sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who after their father's death are turned out of their house by their elder brother and his wife and remove with their mother and younger sister to a cottage in Devon.

The 1995 film version of Sense and Sensibility starring Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman is excellent.

The Movie Trailer for Sense & Sensibility

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Sense & Sensibility - the book, audio book, dvd & video.

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Pride & Prejudice

Although the movie starring Keira Knightly as Elizabeth Bennet is very good by far the best version of Pride & Prejudice, in my opinion, is the BBC adaptation.
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Pride & Prejudice (the BBC version) dvd, video & book

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Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightly version)

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The 2005 Movie of Pride & Prejudice

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Jane Austen Blogs

The Jane Austen Novels Ranked
By Amy Elizabeth Smith In All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane, literature teacher Amy Elizabeth Smith sets out to see if Jane Austen's writing translates across cultures and language in six Latin American countries.
<em>The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</em> Brings Jane Austen to YouTube
By Michael Andersen YouTubers Bernie Su and Hank Green are releasing a modernized spin on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as told through a series of vlog entries in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. With the main thread of the story playing out from Lizzie ...
Books: New and noteworthy
... Smith (Sourcebooks, $14.99, paperback original, non-fiction, on sale June 1) What it's about: Alone at age 41, professor Amy Smith travels through Latin America for a year introducing Jane Austen to new audiences, recording their reactions.
Ten questions on Jane Austen
Jane Austen's admirer Virginia Woolf said that "of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness". It is a brilliant insight. The apparent modesty of Austen's dramas is only apparent; the minuteness of design is a bravura ...
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