Reading Brideshead Revisted,  who did I find? Miss Austen, of course! In chapter two, third volume, the character Anthony Blanche gives exam...

Persuasion (2007) will have an encore presentation on PBS's Masterpiece Classic tonight. One scene was quite controversial: Anne Elliot...

Enjoy this great montage of Jane Austen couples from the recent adaptations of Mansfield Park 2007, Persuasion 2007, Northanger Abbey 2007 a...

Golden Globes winner and rising star Sally Hawkins won last night for her performance as Poppy in Happy Go Lucky . Persuasion fans will be ...

The last time we saw Sally Hawkins she was tearing down Bath's Royal Crescent as Anne Elliot to claim Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry Jo...

Janeites in Australia will soon enjoy the delights of four of Jane Austen’s cannon adapted for the screen. According to this advance intervi...

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Have you noticed? Keen observers of Mansfield Park 1983 will have recognized Sylvestra Le Touzel. She played Fanny Price all those years ag...

SF Gate probably had the funniest and most scathing review of ITV's 2007 adaptation of Persuasion. PBS aired the truncated 90 minute ver...

Can't get enough of Rupert Penry-Jones as yummy Captain Wentworth? Click here to see him in Persuasion videos - find about 20 or so YouT...

The poll sits in the sidebar on the left. You may vote daily! Go to PBS's blog, Remotely Connected , and write your comments about the s...

Watch Persuasion on Masterpiece Classic at 9 p.m. EST and 8 p.m. central time. Read my review as a guest blogger on PBS's Remotely Conn...

Two days and counting until airing of Persuasion. The excitement is building for the PBS presentation of Jane Austen's classic love stor...

Louisa Musgrove: young sister in sprig muslin, aged about 19, engaged and off the marriage mart, Charles & Henrietta Musgrove’s younger ...

Jane Austen’s Sir Walter Elliot reminds us that bad daddies exist in all eras, places, and social strata. In fact, Sir Walter ... ... is so ...