Date: July 29, 2026
Persuasion by Jane Austen
This was apparently Jane Austen’s last book. The movie we watched for this one was the 1995 version starring Amanda Root as Anne Elliot and Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The book establishes right from the start that Anne’s family are awful. Her father is vain and only cares about appearances. Her sisters are […]
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Continuing the Jane Austen film festival, we next watched Mansfield Park. I had not read this book and knew nothing about the story going in. The version we watched was the 1999 release with Frances O’Connor as Fanny Price and Jonny Lee Miller as Edmund Bertram. Reading the book, the first thing that struck me […]
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My girlfriend and I went on a Jane Austin kick lately, watching all the movies that aren’t Pride and Prejudice. We ended up watching two different versions of Emma, the 1996 version with Gwyneth Paltrow and the 2020 version with Anya-Taylor Joy. They felt so different I decided to re-read the book to see which […]
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