Netflix to remake Pride and Prejudice – why Jane Austen novels make perfect period adaptations: Announcing its new six-part adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Netflix quoted screenwriter Dolly Alderton as saying: “Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story.” In the 250th anniversary of her birth, it would seem …
Miss Austen: the TV show about the Georgian writer’s life embraces her love of fiction: At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the …
Everything that’s wrong with sentencing a white supremacist to read Jane Austen and Charles Dickens: What do you do with a young man convicted for being in possession of a bomb-making manual? A count of possessing information likely to be useful for preparing an act of terror can carry a jail term of up to …
A Jane Austen quote encoded in plastic molecules demonstrates the potential for a new kind of data storage: Shutterstock/spainter_vfx The words “if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another” were originally published in 1814 in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. At the time, the words were printed using revolutionary steam-powered printers that could …
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