The Other Bennett Sister reminded me of my own self-consciousness – and worry that girls still have to play down their cleverness
To be a clever, bookish teenage girl is to spend a certain amount of t…
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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend TV: With Mrs Bennet a poisonous snob, the BBC has ruined Austen's classic ○
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The Other Bennet Sister tells Jane Austen's most celebrated novel from the viewpoint of bookish, awkward Mary.
The Other Bennet Sister review – the bookish Pride and Prejudice sister gets her turn in the spotlight ⊕
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Ella Bruccoleri’s performance as Mary is absolutely lovely. It’s a shame this overly slight drama labours the jokes about her marriage prospects, though
Lydia Bennet – the kickable youngest Bennet dau…
34 days ago
Not their finest hour: 'Bonkers' Bank of England ditches Churchill and Austen for otters and badgers as wildlife replaces historical figures on UK notes ○
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Winston Churchill and Jane Austen will be replaced by the likes of otters and badgers on UK banknotes - in a decision described as 'total bonkers' by critics.
49 days ago
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review – a dazzling wartime fantasy ⊕
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Dark magic, fascism and romance in blitz-stricken London: this exuberant novel is a popcorny delight
When I teach creative writing, I often find myself insisting upon the essential importance of fun: …
5 months ago
‘I’m so not scary. But my features can be’: Fiona Shaw on Austen, Andor and Harry Potter ⊕⊕
The actor answers your questions about slipping swearwords into Disney shows, breakfast with Terrence Malick and lunch with Richard Griffiths
Your funeral speech in Andor was a huge highlight of a sho…
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst ⊕⊕
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and th…
Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett ⊖
New adaptations of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Wuthering Heights explore slavery, pervy nuns and death in childbirth. Count me in!
News that Andrew Davies – the man behind the nat…
The Guardian view on Austen and Brontë adaptations: purists may reel, but reinvention keeps classic novels alive | Editorial ○
The appetite for onscreen versions of much-loved literature is endless, but dogged faithfulness to a text is not the only way to stay true to authors’ spirit
It is a truth universally acknowledged tha…
6 months ago
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen audiobook review – an immersive all-star dramatisation ⊕
Actors Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy and Marisa Abela are among the cast in a pacy adaptation that retains Austen’s sharp plotting and comic precision
Does the world need another Jane Austen adap…