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. ... Following the 1995 Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and two more Emmas, all before the end of 1996. 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, 'Sens...

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