I recently watched three versions of Jane Austen’s Persuasion after reading the fabulous novel…the 1971 version starring Anne Firbank and Bryan Marshall (a television miniseries), the 1995 version starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, and the 2007 version starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones. Persuasion is about a 27 year old unmarried woman, one of […]
Search Results for: label/Jane Austen
I am a total Janeite, and have been studying Jane Austen literature and her life after falling in love with Emma. I am currently finishing my third novel in my new Jane Austen literature hobby, Pride and Prejudice, and it’s my favorite of all. The film version of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and […]
I’ve recently finished reading Persuasion, a beautiful novel by Jane Austen. It tells the tale of a 27 year old woman who finds herself once again in proximity with the handsome, ambitious man whose proposal she turned down eight years prior, at the persuasion of her family and a family friend. He is now advanced […]