Jane Austen Media Reviews

Jane Austen On-line: Period Fashion and Patterns

Everyone is familiar with the Empire waists and Grecian sillouette of the early 19th century. The classic styles and light fabrics were, no doubt, a relief from the heavily embroidered fashi...

Jane Austen On-line: Austen Resources On the Net

There is nothing like curling up with a good book. Still, for convenience and research’s sake, e-texts, on-line libraries and searchable databases are a wonderful resource. Wondering just how many ...

Jane Austen On-Line: Begin your Search

In this age of technology and high-speed access, it is possible to find nearly anyone and anything on-line. When a recent internet search using the phrase "Jane Austen" revealed more than 124,0...

Bright Star - A Film Review

Bright Star It is rare that a film separates potential viewers into two camps so easily as Bright Star, director Jane Campion’s ode to the relationship between John Keats, the great 19th century...

Emma (2009) on Masterpiece Classic: A Review

a review by Laurel Ann Nattress of Austenprose

Sense and Sensibility Goes Gothic

Sir Walter Scott confessed that, although he could write action adventure novels “like any now going,” he lacked Jane Austen’s genius, “the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace thing...

Miss Austen Regrets: An "Imagined" Biography

I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her in the summer just what you describe, almost another sister; and could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much to me...

Almost Persuaded: ITV's Persuasion

The game is afoot in ITV’s Persuasion as Anne Elliot (Sally Hawkins) speed walks down a maze of hallways in Kellynch and jogs down the streets of Bath in what was, presumably, the film makers’ att...

Becoming Jane: Becoming Fictional

Prior knowledge of Jane Austen's life will not enhance the viewer's enjoyment of the film."   Becoming Jane is not really about Jane Austen. Becoming is about us and our Austen- inspired, tim...

Barbara Cartland’s Mansfield Park

The 2007 made-for-television film Mansfield Park is not to be confused with Jane Austen’s 1814 novel of the same name. Like Lydia Bennet’s marriage, the ITV Park is “a patched up business.” The ...

Northanger Abbey 2007: The Continuing Saga

Another Jane Austen novel is being dusted off for the big screen. This time, Miramax films is co-producing Northanger Abbey. It's a $9 million feature adaptation of Jane Austen's first published ...

Pride and Prejudice 2005: Cinderella Meets Mr. Darcy

Is Pride and Prejudice primarily a Cinderella story? How you answer that question may well determine whether you will enjoy or detest the 2005 Keira Knightley/Matthew Macfadyen film. When spendi...