In the wake of a new theatrical version of Emma and the U.S. broadcast of new series Sanditon earlier this year, 2020 has proven a pretty great year to be a Jane Austen fan. And with everything going on in the world right now, there may still be no
This year's new big-screen adaptation of Emma is funny, fresh, and fast-paced with great direction and an amazing cast. Let's take a look at what works, and unfortunately, what doesn't in the film.
Sanditon is the only novel by Jane Austen to feature a black character. But given the diversity of late Georgian society, wouldn't her contemporary readers have assumed people of color were there anyway?
One of the most intriguing aspects of Sanditon, the new Masterpiece drama adapted from the existing scraps of a would-be Jane Austen novel, is that we have no idea where it’s going. At all.
Austen only wrote 11 chapters of this story before she died