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Tag: Jane Austen

Film of the book: ‘Persuasion’ (2022)

09/08/2022 nsford 13 Comments

There was only one good thing about this film. The lovely black and white bunny which you see Anne holding…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, films, Jane Austen, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Emma’ (2020)

09/06/2022 nsford 7 Comments

This is a perky, if unnecessary, adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel. Directed by Autumn de Wilde (what a gorgeous…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, films, Jane Austen, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (2005)

09/02/2022 nsford 10 Comments

An elegant and light-hearted adaptation of Jane Austen’s much-loved novel. Directed by Joe Wright with a screenplay by Deborah Moggach…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, fiction, films, Jane Austen, reviews

Review of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen

03/03/2021 nsford 10 Comments

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

Review of ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen

07/10/2020 nsford 13 Comments

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this re-read of Jane Austen’s third published novel. I’d only read…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Persuasion’ (2007)

09/09/2020 nsford 9 Comments

Part of the channel ITV’s ‘Jane Austen season’ in 2007, this adaptation of the author’s last novel was decent enough…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, fiction, films, Jane Austen, reviews

Review of ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen

05/08/2020 nsford 11 Comments

Northanger Abbey is a fun read, with well-defined characters and a strong sense of place. It’s also a defence of…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition!

05/03/2020 nsford 29 Comments

My previous post on writers I’d love to have coffee with was very popular. My blogger friend Ryan stole my…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, classics, fiction, George Orwell, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Stella Gibbons, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, writers

Authors I want to re-read – and some I don’t

15/01/2020 nsford 12 Comments

Our reading tastes tend to change over time. We return to some authors again and again, authors we never get…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: Ann M Martin, books, fiction, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Joanne Harris, R L Stine, reading, Stella Gibbons, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Ursula K LeGuin, Virginia Woolf

Review of ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen

13/12/2019 nsford 10 Comments

I was hoping to like and understand Persuasion better than I did thirteen years ago. Unlike my re-reading of Sense…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, Jane Austen, reviews

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