There are some authors who have seen their works turned into films many times over. Well, they haven’t “seen” it necessarily, because they tend to be dead. William Shakespeare never got ...
I WAS a fan of Jane Austen long before Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice. I’d read all her novels and fancied finding a Mr Darcy of my own — the bigger his stately ...
Can reading Jane Austen give us ... We assume that Austen must be suffering from the same delusions. Recent film and fictional adaptations of her novels haven’t helped: “the ghosts of ...