Yet no work of Jane Austen reached the big screen before 1940's Pride and Prejudice – which, though highly popular, was the last Austen film for a long period. Between 1948 and 1994, television was the chief medium for adaptations of Austen's novels. ... At the end of the twentieth century, a nineteenth-century novelist Jane Austen had become a hot media property. ... Emma Thompson spent five years translating Jane Austen's work to the screen. In 1995, Thompson not only wrote and acted in a film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', bu...

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Chapter 1 Mr Dashwood and his family live in an estate at Norland Park. The estate is not theirs but from an old man who is a relative of Mr John Dashwood. Mr...

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