While some movies bring a brilliant new angle to Austen’s classic stories, some ideas fall flat. Looking at the current catalog of Austen movies, you’ll find great adaptations, practically perfect adaptations, and very bad adaptations. Though there honestly should be more adaptations out by now, particularly for her later novels Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, and we’ve yet to see these stories brought to life on-screen for more than a few different languages and cultures. Now, more than two centuries after her death, Austen’s influence has grown exponentially, with her writings transforming into many different mediums, including a lot of on-screen adaptations.Ĭonsidering how brilliant Austen’s writing is, especially the depth and complexity she puts into her female protagonists, it’s no wonder that people continue to remake and reinterpret her novels over the years. Everyone loves a good period romance, frolicking through 19th century England in long dresses and wavy updos, but sometimes you’ve got to spice it up a bit, and who could have guessed Jane Austen’s works would work so well in 1990s Los Angeles? Austen lived from 1775 to 1817, completing only six novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey, along with a final, posthumously finished book called Sanditon, and the epistolary novel, Lady Susan.
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