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Jane Austen's "power" in Hollywood cinema parodied in Entertainment Weekly.

Jane Austen and her works have been represented in popular culture in a variety of forms.

From Jane Austen: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.[1] Amongst scholars and critics, Austen's realism and biting social commentary have cemented her historical importance as a writer.

From Jane Austen in popular culture: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose social commentary and masterful use of both free indirect speech and irony eventually made her one of the most influential and honored novelists in English literature. In popular culture, Jane Austen's novels and her personal life have been adapted into film, television, and theater with each adaptation varying greatly in its faithfulness to the original.

Possibly New Intro (bad prphrs of orig artcl)???: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction have placed her as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. In popular culture, Jane Austen, her personal life, and her novels have been depicted in various forms.

Public Image

PUBLIC IMAGE!!! Not Reception Hist. - Rmbr to link to Rcptn Hist.

During Her Lifetime

• Little fame & no recog.
• Choose to write "By a Lady"
• Prince Regent - Emma

After Her Death

• Most letters burnt.
• Quote Virginia Wolf's essay
• A Memoir of Jane Austen
• Family tries to cover, or embellish. AMoJA's Engraving. "Dear Aunt Jane" "Spinster"

Modern Perception

• "Queen of Romance"?
• Jane Austen's Hollywood Power
• "Clueless" exect asking to speak to JA
• Fandom & Janeites may fit in here - Link to main articles

As a Fictional Character

[[:Image:Becoming Jane.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Becoming Jane film poster.]]

Despite the fact that most of Jane Austen's letters were burnt after her death, and that Jane Austen kept no diaries, a few semi-biographical works have been released.

Film

In 2007, Anne Hathaway starred as Jane Austen in the biographical film Becoming Jane. Based on the biography Becoming Jane Austen by John Spence, the film centered on Jane Austen's early life, her development as an author, and the posited romantic relationship with Thomas Langlois Lefroy (James McAvoy).

Television

Miss Austen Regrets, a television movie starring Olivia Williams as Jane Austen was released on the same year. Based on Jane Austen's surviving letters, the semi-biographical television movie focused on the last few years of Jane Austen's life as she looked back on her life and loves and helped her favorite niece, Fanny Knight (Imogen Poots), find a husband.

Waves of JA adaptations

• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s - "Darcymania," "Modern Adaps like Clueless (exect asked to meet JA)," "JA's 'Hollywood' Power"
• 2000s - Anthology of Jane Austen Season/The Complete Jane Austen, "MashUp, spinoffs, etc" buzz around P&P&Zombies
• 2010s -

List of Adaptations

Sense and Sensibility

Film & Television

Year	Adaptation	Elinor Dashwood	Marianne Dashwood	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1971	Sense and Sensibility Television Miniseries	Joanna David	Ciaran Madden	David Giles	Denis Constanduros
1981	Sense and Sensibility Television Miniseries	Irene Richard	Tracey Childs	Rodney Bennett	Alexander Baron
1995	Sense and Sensibility Motion Picture	Emma Thompson	Kate Winslet	Ang Lee	Emma Thompson
2008	Sense and Sensibility Television Miniseries	Hattie Morahan	Charity Wakefield	John Alexander	Andrew Davies

Pride and Prejudice

Year	Adaptation	Elizabeth Bennet	Fitzwilliam Darcy	Director	Screenwriter	Notes
1940	Pride and Prejudice Motion Picture	Greer Garson	Laurence Oliver	Robert Z. Leonard	Aldous Huxley Helen Jerome Jane Murfin
1981	Sense and Sensibility Television Miniseries	Irene Richard	Tracey Childs	Rodney Bennett	Alexander Baron

Non-book Based

• The 1980 film Jane Austen in Manhattan is about rival stage companies who wish to produce the only complete Austen play "Sir Charles Grandison" (from the Richardson novel of the same title), which was rediscovered in 1980.

• The 2007 film The Jane Austen Book Club is about a group of people who form a Jane Austen discussion group. Much of the dialogue concerns her novels and her personal life. This film is based on a book by Karen Joy Fowler.

• In the radio sitcom Old Harry's Game, Jane Austen is a minor recurring character who is in Hell. In it, Austen is discovered to have been incredibly violent, rude and foul-mouthed personally. As a result, she is one of the few people in Hell that Satan is frightened of and whom other sinners such as Hitler look up to.

• In the science fiction book series Remnants, a subculture group called "Janes" emulate the mannerisms and ideals of the characters in Jane Austen's novels.

• In the British Tv series Blackadder series 3 Blackadder explains he gave himself a female alias when writing a book as it is popular during the time and then explains that Jane Austen is in the same boat as she is really a Yorkshireman with a heavy beard.

Fandom

• Janeites

Bibliography

• Macdonald, Gina and Andrew Macdonald, eds. Jane Austen on Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0521793254.
• Pucci, Suzanne Rodin and James Thompson, eds. Jane Austen and Co.: Remaking the Past in Contemporary Culture. Buffalo: State University of New York Press, 2003. ISBN 0791456153.
• Troost, Linda and Sayre Greenfield, eds. Jane Austen in Hollywood. 2nd ed. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ISBN 0813190061.