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Overwrought with pop culture cliches and missing some of Austen's best characters, Amanda Grange's newest "Pride and Prejudice" takeoff leaves much to be desired.

The BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries, starring Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet) and Colin Firth (Mr Darcy), features authentic period hairstyles which are easy to copy.

In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen injects herself into the story with comments on technique, including satire, plot, and valuable information about literary ideas.

Amanda Price is a modern woman in love with the culture of Jane Austen. Elizabeth Bennet appears in her bathroom, and Amanda takes her place in the great love story.

Based on the storyline of Pride and Prejudice, this novel takes a fresh approaches to the novel by considering the action of the story from the perspective of Darcy.

Love was a serious matter in Jane Austen's day. In Regency England, especially for women, an offer of marriage was not just about feeling - it was necessary to survive.

Six novels with six different stories and several heroines, but do you remember who's who and what's what?

Jane Austen is known for her strong, independent heroines, but she also created enduring male characters who exhibited patience, loyalty, and deep feelings.

Learn how to build a vibrant, classic character with this quick and easy method.

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most famous works in the whole of English Literature. Its themes and characters seem to have transcended their own context.

Writer Juliette Shapiro decided to finish the novel Jane Austen was working on just months before she died in 1817.

The works of Jane Austen, whilst slighted by some as mere romantic fairy tales, contain suffering that she made realistic by drawing upon her own life and observations.

Disappointment, an emotion that can shred the heart and spirit, is a common theme in one of Jane Austen's best-known works.

Jane Austen writes villains into her works; sometimes, though, they are hard to spot because they are so genteel with their villainy that they blend into fictional life.

The most well-known women in Jane Austen's novels change, as Austen's life changes and she grows both as a person and a writer.

Jane Austen weaves second chances through several of her novels, but two in particular allow for second opportunities, although circumstances vary.

There were three main kinds of dances or Formal Balls of 19th century England as noted in Jane Austen's novels, and they played a significant role in people's lives.

Depictions of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--as well as Regency-era English society--vary from the deeply romantic to the downright weird.

Jane Austen perhaps left this work uncompleted because she was writing it when her father died and she and her family were thrown into sadness, turmoil, and uncertainty.

Despite differences in socioeconomic standing, Jane Austen's heroines in Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice challenge traditional Regency rules to marry the men they love

Pride and Prejudice has been the focus of many movies over the past sixty years. They differ in their scope, but all breathe life into the classic romance tale.

What could make Austen's classic story of opposites attracting even more appealing? How about a musical based modern India? Oh ye of little faith, it works.

Bridget Jones's Diary was released by Helen Fielding in 1996. It focuses on the life of Bridget Jones; a thirty-something 'singleton' living in London.

Jane Austen's original classic, Pride and Prejudice, was written in 1813. Nearly two hundred years later, Seth Grahame-Smith has taken Austen's novel and added in zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen was going to be one of the best Zombie Romantic Comedy novels of 2009. What went wrong?

The question at hand is whether Austen was a feminist. It was thought that Austen was a romance writer who taught tradition/virtue in her prose. This was not the case.

A guide to what is classed as a realist novel, and what is not. What makes a novel (or film / television programme) so realistic that it is actually believable.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice remains a perennial favourite. In recent years there have been a range of film versions to delight or annoy fans of the novel.

Humour is tricky. What makes one laugh offends another. Jane Austen used dry humour that is easily missed, but for those who get it, they are in for a treat.

The novel Persuasion, written later in Jane Austen's life, after the loss of her father and the onset of her own illness, is a complex mixture of sadness and joy.

To Regency-era writer Jane Austen, a good marriage meant having it all - love and money. As this did not happen often in reality, her novels appeased with happy endings.

The literary character of Fitzwilliam Darcy is as enduring as any ever created. When Jane Austen dreamed him up, she probably had no idea that she was inventing an icon.

What is a crush? Why does it pour life and libido back into tired spirit? It awakens the soul from the dead. What is love's purpose? What is libido and life's energy?