Jane Austen is one of my favorite writers. In fact, I've taught a course on her. Do you know much about her?
I do not know much about her, but I do know that her works has been represented in popular cultures in amyn diferent forms!
Indeed, there have been a number of television and movie adaptations, including one of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth. It's worth watching.
(starting in 1940), television (starting in 1938), and professional theatre (starting in 1901), with adaptations varying greatly in their faithfulness to the original.
Books and scripts that use the general storyline of Austen's novels but change or otherwise modernise the story also became popular at the end of the 20th century. For example, "Clueless" (1995), Amy Heckerling's updated version of "Emma", which takes place in Beverly Hills, became a cultural phenomenon and spawned its own television
there's nothing I can do about it. NBC has been pretty good about what they've offered me. It's really been a wide variety. Unfortunately, the ones for which I've been available don't mark that much of a departure, but that's just coincidence... I know that title sounds really fluffy, but (Manoff) plays a really terrific person who hides her light under a bushel, by dressing sloppily and talking tough. She thinks that men aren't attracted to her, and she just has