Film review: Emma. (2020), directed by Autumn de Wilde tl;dr: Does what it says on the tin. From a director mostly known for music videos
Book review: Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor (Virago Press, 2011 [1946]) ‘She was setting out with nothing to commend her to such a profession, beyond the
I’ve often wondered why in Jane Austen the interesting new acquaintances of the heroine’s age are often men rather than women. If the women are
Film review: Becoming Jane (2007), directed by Julian Jarrold In a film with a delightfully ambiguous title, we meet the Austen family. There is the
Film review: Clueless (1995), directed by Amy Heckerling Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) lives with her father (Dan Hedaya) in Beverly Hills. She has an older
Book review: Jane Rochester: A Novel Inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre by Kimberly A Bennett (Writer’s Club Press, 2000) Dear Reader, Do you remember
Film review: Bride & Prejudice (2004), directed by Gurinder Chada What happens if you take Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and set it in modern
A friend pointed me in the direction of this little text analyser: I Write Like. Paste a bit of text and voilà, it will tell
Film review: Persuasion (2007), directed by Adrian Shergold tl;dr: Persuading me to read the book instead, because how do you make Austen suck?! (This is