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• Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

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  This movie checks so many of the boxes for a delightful romcom. Agathe works at the iconic Shakespeare & Company in Paris (check). She wants to be a writer (check). She is invited to the dreamy and vied for Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Austen

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  Cassandra Austen is often remembered for destroying the vast correspondence of her beloved sister Jane. Why she did will remain unknown, but Miss Austen uses the mystery as the focal point of this riveting four-part series starring the formidable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Comes to Pemberley

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  A giant among mystery writers, here P.D. James takes on the challenge of writing in the genre at a point six years after the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. A ball at Pemberley is being planned and guests begin to arrive when there is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Jane

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  Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy star as Jane Austen and Tom LeFroy. An imagining based on the scant facts known about the acquaintance, this film offers possible answers as to how Austen became such an expert on the heart, dashed hopes, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Austenland

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  Austenland begins by asking what separates the casual Austen fan from the aficionado. Can one go too far in one’s obsession? Is a cardboard cutout of Colin Firth as Darcy in one’s apartment too much? Or is going to an immersive Jane Austen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Austen Regrets

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• Pride + Prejudice + Zombies

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  It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the black plague could result in an uprising of zombies. If the idea of mixing zombies, an apocalyptic backdrop, and martial arts with Jane Austen seems a bit much, the comedic aspect might win you over.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You've Got Mail

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  “I bet you read that book every year” says Joe Fox to Kathleen Kelly. In fact, she has read Pride and Prejudice at least 200 times, and Joe compares her to Elizabeth Bennet, saying that she’ll never forgive him, due to her pride, or, was it her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Jane Austen Book Club

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  The question WWJAD (What would Jane Austen do?) is a touchstone in the Jane Austen Book Club. The club starts with each of the six members selecting one of Austen’s novels. The characters are each based on an Austen character, and life imitates art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Tours: England, Scotland, and Wales. Episode 5, Britain's Medieval Castles

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  If you want to get a feeling for the places Jane Austen wrote about, Kanopy offers a tour of the villages Jane Austen lived in and wrote about, including Lyme Regis which figures in Persuasion.