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Romantic comedies are a dime a dozen. And Romantic comedies inspired by Jane Austen are even more common. In Laura Piani's directorial debut, she boldly takes on modernizing Austen and manages to ...
Masterpiece on PBS‘s latest foray in the romantic world of the Regency era brings us Jane Austen with a twist: Miss Austen delves into the mysteries surrounding the real life author herself.
Agathe is celibate by choice. The 30-something hero of filmmaker Laura Piani’s feature debut “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” played by the luminous Camille Rutherford, hasn’t so much been ...
No wonder she’s so wild about Jane Austen. But, despite the title of Laura Piani’s fresh romantic comedy “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” the heroine of this story isn’t totally at the ...
Masterpiece on PBS‘s latest foray in the world of Regency drama is Miss Austen, an adaptation of the Gill Hornby novel of the same name. Masterpiece mainstay Keeley Hawes stars in the four-part ...
With one wet white shirt and a ton of screen-leaping lust, Jane Austen became properly, memorably hot. If that was a singularly steamy moment in the history of Austen adaptations on screen ...
Masterpiece Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen. Both the show, and the book it was based upon, Gill Hornby's 2020 novel, Miss Austen, lightly suggest a motive for Cassandra’s actions. Still ...
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life sort of takes the idea of what if a Jane Austen superfan was a writer and thrust into a Jane Austen story herself. The movie takes place in the present day, but many of ...
In the two centuries or so since her soothing observations of the pains of repeated dinner invitations were unfurled before us, has Jane Austen ever managed to wreck anyone's life? We Austen ...
WARNING: This episode contains spoilers for Miss Austen. Writer Gill Hornby has been a fan of Jane Austen’s work since she first read Mansfield Park as a teenager. But it wasn’t until Gill ...