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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.
This year is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and what Professor Hermione Lee once called the “English tradition of affection and sympathy for Jane Austen” is thriving.
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius celebrates the surprising life of the author whose ground breaking novels have been loved for over two centuries. The three-part series explores how the author of ...
The romantic comedy film Jane Austen Wrecked My Life will be released in limited theaters across the United States on May 23, 2025. It was written and directed by Laura Piani and produced by ...
On the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Janeites still lament the loss of her unpublished words. Of the thousands of rumoured letters to Austen’s friends and family once in existence ...
Masterpiece’s latest period drama introduces audiences to a lesser-known Austen: Jane's sister Cassandra. History has not been kind to her, given that her most noteworthy act was burning much of the ...
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life sort of takes asks the question, “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 ...
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 ...
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 mainstay Keeley Hawes stars in the four-part series as Cassandra Austen, the older sister and best friend of legendary author Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran). Even though Jane passed years ...