Is there something about the cold weather and the dark nights that make us yearn for the petticoat-wearing, ball-dancing, etiquette-minding past? The darkening months are synonymous with Poldark and Downton Abbey but a new, sexier period drama has risen to take their place. Based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, Bridgerton is Netflix’s first series made […]Read More
Succession star Sarah Snook has been cast in the lead role of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, an upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel. Sarah Snook will portray the protagonist, Anne Elliot, who must endure a series of romantic challenges in this period drama. Elliot is a woman who, “many years after refusing the proposal of […]Read More
What exactly is it about Jane Austen’s second novel, Pride and Prejudice, that has made it so unwaveringly popular from 1813 up until the present day? It could be the irresistible romance or the social commentary – but many argue that it is its central protagonist, the admirable, complex Elizabeth Bennet and how she navigates […]Read More
Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen What I think so far: Whilst not the ‘cult-classic’ that is Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion holds the advantage that the reader will enter into it with few pre-conceived notions of the book. It comes with the genre that Austen will be wordy, with sentences both convoluted and decorous – almost a little […]Read More
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