Jane Austen Media Reviews

Bride and Prejudice: Bollywood's Pride and Prejudice extravaganza!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must have no life without wife.   Obviously, something was lost in translation between the 1813 novel an...

Pride and Prejudice: A Latter Day Comedy

From the beginning film producers have felt compelled to adapt and update Jane Austen’s books. Paramount did it with the movie Clueless, when they set Emma against the backdrop of a here and now Be...

Kandukondain Kandukondain: The Indian Film Industry takes on Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged...that Jane Austen's works must be popular wherever they are found. While her works have been translated into many languages across the world, it is only th...

First Impressions: The CD

First Impressions (1959) is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by George Weiss, Robert Goldman, and Glenn Paxton, and book by Abe Burrows (Guys and Dolls), based on the stage adaptation by...

The Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack

The Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack By Dario Marianelli Before filming ever began on Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice, he knew the type of soundtrack he wanted—and he knew who he wanted to writ...

The Jane Austen Songbooks

The Pianoforte was one of the most popular instruments for young ladies to learn to play during the Regency. With this, they could accompany dancers or singers or play solos that would ente...

A Very Innocent Diversion

[Aunt Jane] began her day with music - for which I conclude that she had a natural taste...she practiced regularly every morning - she played very pretty tunes I thought - I liked to stand by h...

Oxford World's Classics: Persuasion

A tale of the pain and peril of human isolation not quite overcome, a modern book: Persuasion. Better known and somewhat misunderstood as a story of reprieve & retrieval: joy snatched fro...

Persuasion: An Overview

Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories ar...

The latest Oxford edition of Emma

Emma. The book of books. A remarkable novel where when a story or character suggestively goes through Emma’s mind since she half-gets it wrong, and sees it partially, we are invited to imagine it w...

Emma: An Overview

Emma, by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance.

Mansfield Park: A Review

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen While I’m not sure we really know how Mansfield Park rates among groups of readers, and there is evidence to suggest that like the other four novels beyond Prid...